Wurst -- A protein threading server with a structural scoring function, sequence profiles and optimized substitution matrices

What you can do:
Perform protein sequence to structure alignments to a library.
Highlights:
  • Submitted sequences are aligned to each of about 7000 templates with a conventional dynamic programming algorithm, but using a score function with sophisticated structure and sequence terms.
  • The structure terms are a log-odds probability of sequence to structure fragment compatibility, obtained from a Bayesian classification procedure.
  • A simplex optimization was used to optimize the sequence-based terms for the goal of alignment and model quality and to balance the sequence and structural contributions against each other. Both sequence and structural terms operate with sequence profiles.
  • The submitted sequence must be more than 20 and less than 1000 amino acid residues.
  • The calculation will be run with default gap and insertion penalties.
Keywords:
  • protein structures
  • sequence to structure alignments
Literature & Tutorials:
PubMed Link: Wurst
This record last updated: 05-11-2005
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