The exponential increase in sequencing data calls for conceptual and computational advances to extract useful biological insights. One such advance, minimizers, allows for …
Introduction to Proteins provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the structure, function, and motion of proteins for students, faculty, and researchers at all levels …
L Xie, PE Bourne - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Here, a scalable, accurate, reliable, and robust protein functional site comparison algorithm is presented. The key components of the algorithm consist of a reduced representation of the …
R Kolodny, S Nepomnyachiy, DS Tawfik… - … biology and evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The vast majority of theoretically possible polypeptide chains do not fold, let alone confer function. Hence, protein evolution from preexisting building blocks has clear potential …
Background The sizes of proteins are relevant to their biochemical structure and for their biological function. The statistical distribution of protein lengths across a diverse set of taxa …
AL Cuff, I Sillitoe, T Lewis, OC Redfern… - Nucleic acids …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The latest version of CATH (class, architecture, topology, homology)(version 3.2), released in July 2008 (http://www. cathdb. info), contains 1 14 215 domains, 2178 Homologous …
M Margelevičius - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
With protein databases growing rapidly due to advances in structural and computational biology, the ability to accurately align and rapidly search protein structures has become …
L Jaroszewski, Z Li, SS Krishna, C Bakolitsa… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The genome projects have unearthed an enormous diversity of genes of unknown function that are still awaiting biological and biochemical characterization. These genes, as most …
Advances in protein structure determination, led by the structural genomics initiatives have increased the proportion of novel folds deposited in the Protein Data Bank. However, these …