title: Modeling protein loops with knowledge-based prediction of sequence-structure alignment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  As protein structure database expands, protein loop modeling remains an important and yet challenging problem. Knowledge-based protein loop prediction methods have met with two challenges in methodology development: (1) loop boundaries in protein structures are frequently problematic in constructing length-dependent loop databases for protein loop predictions; (2) knowledge-based modeling of loops of unknown structure requires both aligning a query loop sequence to loop templates and ranking the loop sequence-template matches.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We developed a knowledge-based loop prediction method that circumvents the need of constructing hierarchically clustered length-dependent loop libraries. The method first predicts local structural fragments of a query loop sequence and then structurally aligns the predicted structural fragments to a set of non-redundant loop structural templates regardless of the loop length. The sequence-template alignments are then quantitatively evaluated with an artificial neural network model trained on a set of predictions with known outcomes. Prediction accuracy benchmarks indicated that the novel procedure provided an alternative approach overcoming the challenges of knowledge-based loop prediction.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
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authors.affiliation: Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica. 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Nankang District, Taipei 115, Taiwan, ROC.
authors.forename: Hung-Pin
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: An-Suei
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship