title: Prediction of quaternary structure from primary structure.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The 'sequence implies conformation' principle has been the motivation for the construction of numerous systems of secondary and tertiary structure prediction. Computational experiments have shown that this principle can now be extended to quaternary structure prediction. This work appears to be the first effort to predict quaternary structure properties from sequence.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The software developed to conduct these experiments was the Quaternary Structure Explorer (QSE). Successful rule-based classifiers have been found that can discriminate between the primary sequences of homodimers and non-homodimers.
authors.affiliation: School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, USA. rgar@science.gmu.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Garian
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence / Q000235:genetics*; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000145:classification; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015723:Gene Library; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary / Q000235:genetics*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids