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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2021

DISTEVAL: a web server for evaluating predicted protein distances.

Badri Adhikari, Bikash Shrestha, Matthew Bernardini, Jie Hou, Jamie Lea

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  4. Computational Resources for Bioscience Education.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2021
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  5. Deep Learning-Based Advances in Protein Structure Prediction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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Badri AdhikariDepartment of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 312 Express Scripts Hall, St. Louis, MO, USA. adhikarib@umsl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1547-0238
Bikash ShresthaDepartment of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 312 Express Scripts Hall, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Matthew BernardiniDepartment of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 312 Express Scripts Hall, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Jie HouDepartment of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, 217 Ritter Hall, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Jamie LeaDepartment of Computer Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 312 Express Scripts Hall, St. Louis, MO, USA.

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Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering 1948117
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundProtein inter-residue contact and distance prediction are two key intermediate steps essential to accurate protein structure prediction. Distance prediction comes in two forms: real-valued distances and 'binned' distograms, which are a more finely grained variant of the binary contact prediction problem. The latter has been introduced as a new challenge in the 14th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP14) 2020 experiment. Despite the recent proliferation of methods for predicting distances, few methods exist for evaluating these predictions. Currently only numerical metrics, which evaluate the entire prediction at once, are used. These give no insight into the structural details of a prediction. For this reason, new methods and tools are needed.

resultsWe have developed a web server for evaluating predicted inter-residue distances. Our server, DISTEVAL, accepts predicted contacts, distances, and a true structure as optional inputs to generate informative heatmaps, chord diagrams, and 3D models. All of these outputs facilitate visual and qualitative assessment. The server also evaluates predictions using other metrics such as mean absolute error, root mean squared error, and contact precision.

conclusionsThe visualizations generated by DISTEVAL complement each other and collectively serve as a powerful tool for both quantitative and qualitative assessments of predicted contacts and distances, even in the absence of a true 3D structure.

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InternetModels, MolecularProteinsAmino AcidsComputational BiologyProtein ConformationAmino AcidsProteinsDistance predictionDistogramInter-residue contact assessmentInter-residue contact predictionProtein structure prediction

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