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Using Dali for Protein Structure Comparison

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Structural Bioinformatics

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 2112))

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The exponential growth in the number of newly solved protein structures makes correlating and classifying the data an important task. Distance matrix alignment (Dali) is used routinely by crystallographers worldwide to screen the database of known structures for similarity to newly determined structures. Dali is easily accessible through the web server (http://ekhidna.biocenter.helsinki.fi/dali). Alternatively, the program may be downloaded and pairwise comparisons performed locally on Linux computers.

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  1. Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Liisa Holm

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  1. Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary

    Zoltán Gáspári

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Holm, L. (2020). Using Dali for Protein Structure Comparison. In: Gáspári, Z. (eds) Structural Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2112. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0270-6_3

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