Abstract
With the expansion of genomics and proteomics data aided by the rapid progress of next-generation sequencing technologies, computational prediction of protein three-dimensional structure is an essential part of modern structural genomics initiatives. Prediction of protein structure through understanding of the theories behind protein sequence–structure relationship, however, remains one of the most challenging problems in contemporary life sciences. Here, we describe MULTICOM, a multi-level combination technique, intended to predict moderate- to high-resolution structure of a protein through a novel approach of combining multiple sources of complementary information derived from the experimentally solved protein structures in the Protein Data Bank. The MULTICOM web server is freely available at http://sysbio.rnet.missouri.edu/multicom_toolbox/.
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The work was supported by an NIH grant R01GM093123 to J.C.
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Li, J. et al. (2014). The MULTICOM Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction System. In: Kihara, D. (eds) Protein Structure Prediction. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1137. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0366-5_3
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