Method
Kappa-alpha plot derived structural alphabet and BLOSUM-like substitution matrix for rapid search of protein structure database
- † Equal contributors
1 Institute of Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University, 75 Po-Ai Street, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan
2 Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, 75 Po-Ai Street, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan
3 Core Facility for Structural Bioinformatics, National Chiao Tung University, 75 Po-Ai Street, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Genome Biology 2007, 8:R31 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-3-r31
Published: 3 March 2007Abstract
We present a novel protein structure database search tool, 3D-BLAST, that is useful for analyzing novel structures and can return a ranked list of alignments. This tool has the features of BLAST (for example, robust statistical basis, and effective and reliable search capabilities) and employs a kappa-alpha (κ, α) plot derived structural alphabet and a new substitution matrix. 3D-BLAST searches more than 12,000 protein structures in 1.2 s and yields good results in zones with low sequence similarity.
