title: T-RMSD: a web server for automated fine-grained protein structural classification.
abstract: This article introduces the T-RMSD web server (tree-based on root-mean-square deviation), a service allowing the online computation of structure-based protein classification. It has been developed to address the relation between structural and functional similarity in proteins, and it allows a fine-grained structural clustering of a given protein family or group of structurally related proteins using distance RMSD (dRMSD) variations. These distances are computed between all pairs of equivalent residues, as defined by the ungapped columns within a given multiple sequence alignment. Using these generated distance matrices (one per equivalent position), T-RMSD produces a structural tree with support values for each cluster node, reminiscent of bootstrap values. These values, associated with the tree topology, allow a quantitative estimate of structural distances between proteins or group of proteins defined by the tree topology. The clusters thus defined have been shown to be structurally and functionally informative. The T-RMSD web server is a free website open to all users and available at http://tcoffee.crg.cat/apps/tcoffee/do:trmsd.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre For Genomic Regulation, Carrer del Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Cedrik
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Magis
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Di Tommaso
authors.forename: Cedric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Notredame
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D020407:Internet; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000145:classification*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins