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The coiled-coil protein domain is a widespread structural motif known to be involved in a wealth of key interactions in cells and organisms. Coiled-coil recognition and prediction of their location in a protein sequence are important steps for modeling protein structure and function. Nowadays, thanks to the increasing number of experimentally determined protein structures, a significant number of coiled-coil protein domains is available. This enables the development of methods suited to predict the coiled-coil structural motifs starting from the protein sequence. Several methods have been developed to predict classical heptads using manually annotated coiled-coil domains. In this paper we focus on the prediction structurally-determined coiled-coil segments. We introduce a new method based on hidden Markov models that complement the existing methods and outperforms them in the task of locating structurally-defined coiled-coil segments.
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Fariselli, P., Molinini, D., Casadio, R., Krogh, A. (2007). Prediction of Structurally-Determined Coiled-Coil Domains with Hidden Markov Models. In: Hochreiter, S., Wagner, R. (eds) Bioinformatics Research and Development. BIRD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4414. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71233-6_23
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