CSA: comprehensive comparison of pairwise protein structure alignments

نویسندگان

  • Inken Wohlers
  • Noël Malod-Dognin
  • Rumen Andonov
  • Gunnar W. Klau
چکیده

CSA is a web server for the computation, evaluation and comprehensive comparison of pairwise protein structure alignments. Its exact alignment engine computes either optimal, top-scoring alignments or heuristic alignments with quality guarantee for the inter-residue distance-based scorings of contact map overlap, PAUL, DALI and MATRAS. These and additional, uploaded alignments are compared using a number of quality measures and intuitive visualizations. CSA brings new insight into the structural relationship of the protein pairs under investigation and is a valuable tool for studying structural similarities. It is available at http://csa.project.cwi.nl.

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دوره 40  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012