SCALI
:: DESCRIPTION
SCALI (Structural Core ALIgnment), can efficiently find conserved packing arrangements, even if they are non-sequentially ordered in space. SCALI alignments conserve remote sequence similarity and contain fewer alignment errors. Clustering of our pairwise non-sequential alignments shows that recurrent packing arrangements exist in topologically different structures. For example, the 3-layer sandwich domain architecture may be divided into four structural subclasses based on internal packing arrangements. These subclasses represent an intermediate level of structure classification, more general than topology but more specific than architecture as defined in CATH. A strategy is presented for developing a set of predictive hidden Markov models based on multiple SCALI alignments.
::DEVELOPER
:: SCREENSHOTS
N/A
:: REQUIREMENTS
- Linux
- GCC
- Fortran compiler
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Citaiton
Yuan X & Bystroff, C. (2005)
Non-sequential Structure-based Alignments Reveal Topology-independent Core Packing Arrangements in Proteins.
Bioinformatics 27(7):1010-1019.