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Evaluating The Efficacy Of A Structure-Derived Amino Acid Substitution Matrix In Detecting Protein Homologs By Blast And Psi-Blast

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Amino acid substitution matrix, Computational biology, Protein homology, Protein structure

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry

Volume

2

Issue

1

First Page

71

Last Page

78

Abstract

The large numbers of protein sequences generated by whole genome sequencing projects require rapid and accurate methods of annotation. The detection of homology through computational sequence analysis is a powerful tool in determining the complex evolutionary and functional relationships that exist between proteins. Homology search algorithms employ amino acid substitution matrices to detect similarity between proteins sequences. The substitution matrices in common use today are constructed using sequences aligned without reference to protein structure. Here we present amino acid substitution matrices constructed from the alignment of a large number of protein domain structures from the structural classification of proteins (SCOP) database. We show that when incorporated into the homology search algorithms BLAST and PSI-BLAST, the structure-based substitution matrices enhance the efficacy of detecting remote homologs.

Department

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Original Publication Date

1-1-2009

DOI of published version

10.2147/aabc.s5553

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