title: Quality assessment of protein model-structures using evolutionary conservation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Programs that evaluate the quality of a protein structural model are important both for validating the structure determination procedure and for guiding the model-building process. Such programs are based on properties of native structures that are generally not expected for faulty models. One such property, which is rarely used for automatic structure quality assessment, is the tendency for conserved residues to be located at the structural core and for variable residues to be located at the surface.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present ConQuass, a novel quality assessment program based on the consistency between the model structure and the protein's conservation pattern. We show that it can identify problematic structural models, and that the scores it assigns to the server models in CASP8 correlate with the similarity of the models to the native structure. We also show that when the conservation information is reliable, the method's performance is comparable and complementary to that of the other single-structure quality assessment methods that participated in CASP8 and that do not use additional structural information from homologs.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  A perl implementation of the method, as well as the various perl and R scripts used for the analysis are available at http://bental.tau.ac.il/ConQuass/.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  nirb@tauex.tau.ac.il
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel.
authors.forename: Matan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kalman
authors.forename: Nir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ben-Tal
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins
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