title: SuperPose: a simple server for sophisticated structural superposition.
abstract: The SuperPose web server rapidly and robustly calculates both pairwise and multiple protein structure superpositions using a modified quaternion eigenvalue approach. SuperPose generates sequence alignments, structure alignments, PDB (Protein Data Bank) coordinates and RMSD statistics, as well as difference distance plots and images (both static and interactive) of the superimposed molecules. SuperPose employs a simple interface that requires only PDB files or accession numbers as input. All other superposition decisions are made by the program. SuperPose is uniquely able to superimpose structures that differ substantially in sequence, size or shape. It is also capable of handling a much larger range of superposition queries and situations than many standalone programs and yields results that are intuitively more in agreement with known biological or structural data. The SuperPose web server is freely accessible at http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/SuperPose/.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E8, Canada.
authors.forename: Rajarshi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maiti
authors.forename: Gary H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Van Domselaar
authors.forename: Haiyan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Wishart
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software; D040681:Structural Homology, Protein; D014584:User-Computer Interface