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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2015

LoopIng: a template-based tool for predicting the structure of protein loops.

Mario Abdel Messih, Rosalba Lepore, Anna Tramontano

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mario Abdel MessihDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy and.
Rosalba LeporeDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy and.
Anna TramontanoDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University, 00185 Rome, Italy and Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Viale Regina Elena 291, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationPredicting the structure of protein loops is very challenging, mainly because they are not necessarily subject to strong evolutionary pressure. This implies that, unlike the rest of the protein, standard homology modeling techniques are not very effective in modeling their structure. However, loops are often involved in protein function, hence inferring their structure is important for predicting protein structure as well as function.

resultsWe describe a method, LoopIng, based on the Random Forest automated learning technique, which, given a target loop, selects a structural template for it from a database of loop candidates. Compared to the most recently available methods, LoopIng is able to achieve similar accuracy for short loops (4-10 residues) and significant enhancements for long loops (11-20 residues). The quality of the predictions is robust to errors that unavoidably affect the stem regions when these are modeled. The method returns a confidence score for the predicted template loops and has the advantage of being very fast (on average: 1 min/loop). AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: www.biocomputing.it/looping. CONTACT: anna.tramontano@uniroma1.it. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Machine LearningProtein ConformationDatabases, ProteinModels, MolecularProteinsSoftwareProteins

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