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ArticleNucleic acids research2011

BriX: a database of protein building blocks for structural analysis, modeling and design.

Peter Vanhee, Erik Verschueren, Lies Baeten, Francois Stricher, Luis Serrano, Frederic Rousseau, Joost Schymkowitz

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Peter VanheeVIB SWITCH Laboratory, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
Erik Verschueren
Lies Baeten
Francois Stricher
Luis Serrano
Frederic Rousseau
Joost Schymkowitz
Centre for Genomic Regulation · ESSoutheastern Wisconsin Information Technology Exchange Consortium · USInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ESVlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-resolution structures of proteins remain the most valuable source for understanding their function in the cell and provide leads for drug design. Since the availability of sufficient protein structures to tackle complex problems such as modeling backbone moves or docking remains a problem, alternative approaches using small, recurrent protein fragments have been employed. Here we present two databases that provide a vast resource for implementing such fragment-based strategies. The BriX database contains fragments from over 7000 non-homologous proteins from the Astral collection, segmented in lengths from 4 to 14 residues and clustered according to structural similarity, summing up to a content of 2 million fragments per length. To overcome the lack of loops classified in BriX, we constructed the Loop BriX database of non-regular structure elements, clustered according to end-to-end distance between the regular residues flanking the loop. Both databases are available online (http://brix.crg.es) and can be accessed through a user-friendly web-interface. For high-throughput queries a web-based API is provided, as well as full database downloads. In addition, two exciting applications are provided as online services: (i) user-submitted structures can be covered on the fly with BriX classes, representing putative structural variation throughout the protein and (ii) gaps or low-confidence regions in these structures can be bridged with matching fragments.

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Databases, ProteinProtein ConformationModels, MolecularProteinsUser-Computer InterfaceProteins

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PMID20972210
PMCPMC3013806
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