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Protein structure prediction methods aim to predict the structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences, utilizing various computational algorithms. Structural genome annotation is the process of attaching biological information to every protein encoded within a genome via the production of three-dimensional protein models.
Introduction
Proteins are essential molecules involved in both structural and functional roles of all living cells. Numerous diseases, notably Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, and cancers, involve mutations in specific proteins, which affect their function. Thus, determining protein structure is essential to understanding functionality and is potentially helpful in developing treatments for the diseases or disorders. The ultimate goal is to determine...
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Roche, D.B., Buenavista, M.T., McGuffin, L.J. (2013). Protein Structure Prediction and Structural Annotation of Proteomes. In: Roberts, G.C.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16712-6_418
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