STRUCLA: a WWW meta-server for protein structure comparison and evolutionary classification
| Autor: | Janusz M. Bujnicki, Joanna M. Sasin, Michal A. Kurowski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Statistics and Probability
Protein structure database Protein Conformation Molecular Sequence Data Structural alignment Information Storage and Retrieval Sequence alignment Biology computer.software_genre Biochemistry Distance measures Evolution Molecular Sequence Analysis Protein Protein methods Amino Acid Sequence Databases Protein Molecular Biology Internet Sequence Homology Amino Acid Phylogenetic tree Proteins Protein tertiary structure Computer Science Applications Computational Mathematics Computational Theory and Mathematics Database Management Systems Data mining Sequence Alignment computer Algorithms Software Distance matrices in phylogeny |
| Zdroj: | ISMB (Supplement of Bioinformatics) |
| ISSN: | 1367-4811 1367-4803 |
| Popis: | Motivation: Evolutionary relationships of proteins have long been derived from the alignment of protein sequences. But from the view of function, most restraints of evolutionary divergence operate at the level of tertiary structure. It has been demonstrated that quantitative measures of dissimilarity in families of structurally similar proteins can be applied to the construction of trees from a comparison of their three-dimensional structures. However, no convenient tool is publicly available to carry out such analyses. Results: We developed STRUCLA (STRUcture CLAssification), a WWW tool for generation of trees based on evolutionary distances inferred from protein structures according to various methods. The server takes as an input a list of PDB files or the initial alignment of protein coordinates provided by the user (for instance exported from SWISS PDB VIEWER). The user specifies the distance cutoff and selects the distance measures. The server returns series of unrooted trees in the NEXUS format and corresponding distance matrices, as well as a consensus tree. The results can be used as an alternative and a complement to a fixed hierarchy of current protein structure databases. It can complement sequence-based phylogenetic analysis in the ‘twilight zone of homology’, where amino acid sequences are too diverged to provide reliable relationships. Availability: The service is free for all users and available at http://asia.genesilico.pl/strucla/ Contact: asia@genesilico.pl; iamb@genesilico.pl *To whom correspondence should be addressed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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