title: A new family of global protein shape descriptors.
abstract: A family of global geometric measures is constructed for protein structure classification. These measures originate from integral formulas of Vassiliev knot invariants and give rise to a unique classification scheme. Our measures can better discriminate between many known protein structures than the simple measures of the secondary structure content of these protein structures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark, Building 303, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. peter.roegen@mat.dtu.dk
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Røgen
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bohr
mesh_terms: D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D016011:Normal Distribution; D017510:Protein Folding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D014102:Torsion Abnormality
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins