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Optimization of a new score function for the detection of remote homologs

✍ Scribed by Maricel Kann; Bin Qian; Richard A. Goldstein

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
113 KB
Volume
41
Category
Article
ISSN
0887-3585

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✦ Synopsis

The growth in protein sequence data has placed a premium on ways to infer structure and function of the newly sequenced proteins. One of the most effective ways is to identify a homologous relationship with a protein about which more is known. While close evolutionary relationships can be confidently determined with standard methods, the difficulty increases as the relationships become more distant. All of these methods rely on some score function to measure sequence similarity. The choice of score function is especially critical for these distant relationships. We describe a new method of determining a score function, optimizing the ability to discriminate between homologs and non-homologs. We find that this new score function performs better than standard score functions for the identification of distant homologies. Proteins 2000;41:498 -503.

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