title: A protocol for computer-based protein structure and function prediction.
abstract: Genome sequencing projects have ciphered millions of protein sequence, which require knowledge of their structure and function to improve the understanding of their biological role. Although experimental methods can provide detailed information for a small fraction of these proteins, computational modeling is needed for the majority of protein molecules which are experimentally uncharacterized. The I-TASSER server is an on-line workbench for high-resolution modeling of protein structure and function. Given a protein sequence, a typical output from the I-TASSER server includes secondary structure prediction, predicted solvent accessibility of each residue, homologous template proteins detected by threading and structure alignments, up to five full-length tertiary structural models, and structure-based functional annotations for enzyme classification, Gene Ontology terms and protein-ligand binding sites. All the predictions are tagged with a confidence score which tells how accurate the predictions are without knowing the experimental data. To facilitate the special requests of end users, the server provides channels to accept user-specified inter-residue distance and contact maps to interactively change the I-TASSER modeling; it also allows users to specify any proteins as template, or to exclude any template proteins during the structure assembly simulations. The structural information could be collected by the users based on experimental evidences or biological insights with the purpose of improving the quality of I-TASSER predictions. The server was evaluated as the best programs for protein structure and function predictions in the recent community-wide CASP experiments. There are currently >20,000 registered scientists from over 100 countries who are using the on-line I-TASSER server.
authors.affiliation: Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: Ambrish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poisson
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D030562:Databases, Protein; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins
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