title: CSA: comprehensive comparison of pairwise protein structure alignments.
abstract: CSA is a web server for the computation, evaluation and comprehensive comparison of pairwise protein structure alignments. Its exact alignment engine computes either optimal, top-scoring alignments or heuristic alignments with quality guarantee for the inter-residue distance-based scorings of contact map overlap, PAUL, DALI and MATRAS. These and additional, uploaded alignments are compared using a number of quality measures and intuitive visualizations. CSA brings new insight into the structural relationship of the protein pairs under investigation and is a valuable tool for studying structural similarities. It is available at http://csa.project.cwi.nl.
authors.affiliation: Life Sciences Group, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I.Wohlers@cwi.nl
authors.forename: Inken
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wohlers
authors.forename: Noël
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Malod-Dognin
authors.forename: Rumen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Andonov
authors.forename: Gunnar W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Klau
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000737:chemistry; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D040681:Structural Homology, Protein
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin