title: Protein structure similarities.
abstract: Comparison of protein structures can reveal distant evolutionary relationships that would not be detected by sequence information alone. This helps to infer functional properties. In recent years, many methods for pairwise protein structure alignment have been proposed and are now available on the World Wide Web. Although these methods have made it possible to compare all available protein structures, they also highlight the remaining difficulties in defining a reliable score for protein structure similarities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Structural Biology, Fairchild Building, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. koehl@csb.stanford.edu
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koehl
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins