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- Title
Multiple structure alignment with msTALI.
- Authors
Shealy, Paul; Valafar, Homayoun
- Abstract
Multiple structure alignments have received increasing attention in recent years as an alternative to multiple sequence alignments. Although multiple structure alignment algorithms can potentially be applied to a number of problems, they have primarily been used for protein core identification. A method that is capable of solving a variety of problems using structure comparison is still absent. Here we introduce a program msTALI for aligning multiple protein structures. Our algorithm uses several informative features to guide its alignments: torsion angles, backbone Cα atom positions, secondary structure, residue type, surface accessibility, and properties of nearby atoms. The algorithm allows the user to weight the types of information used to generate the alignment, which expands its utility to a wide variety of problems.
- Publication
BMC bioinformatics, 2012, Vol 13, p105
- ISSN
1471-2105
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2105-13-105