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@article{citeulike:400393, abstract = {Advances in structural genomics and protein structure prediction require the design of automatic, fast, objective, and well benchmarked methods capable of comparing and assessing the similarity of low-resolution three-dimensional structures, via experimental or theoretical approaches. Here, a new method for sequence-independent structural alignment is presented that allows comparison of an experimental protein structure with an arbitrary low-resolution protein tertiary model. The heuristic algorithm is given and then used to show that it can describe random structural alignments of proteins with different folds with good accuracy by an extreme value distribution. From this observation, a structural similarity score between two proteins or two different conformations of the same protein is derived from the likelihood of obtaining a given structural alignment by chance. The performance of the derived score is then compared with well established, consensus manual-based scores and data sets. We found that the new approach correlates better than other tools with the gold standard provided by a human evaluator. Timings indicate that the algorithm is fast enough for routine use with large databases of protein models. Overall, our results indicate that the new program (MAMMOTH) will be a good tool for protein structure comparisons in structural genomics applications. MAMMOTH is available from our web site at http://physbio.mssm.edu/\~{}ortizg/.}, author = {Ortiz, Angel R. and Strauss, Charlie E. and Olmea, Osvaldo}, citeulike-article-id = {400393}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1110/ps.0215902}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.proteinscience.org/cgi/content/abstract/11/11/2606}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12381844}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12381844}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1110/ps.0215902}, issn = {0961-8368}, journal = {Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society}, keywords = {argonne, automated-analysis, databases, human-coding, ivoc, model-comparison, proteins, structural-alignment, validation}, month = {November}, number = {11}, pages = {2606--2621}, posted-at = {2009-08-14 19:54:51}, priority = {4}, title = {MAMMOTH (matching molecular models obtained from theory): an automated method for model comparison.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1110/ps.0215902}, volume = {11}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:400393 L3 - citeulike-article-id:400393 N2 - Advances in structural genomics and protein structure prediction require the design of automatic, fast, objective, and well benchmarked methods capable of comparing and assessing the similarity of low-resolution three-dimensional structures, via experimental or theoretical approaches. Here, a new method for sequence-independent structural alignment is presented that allows comparison of an experimental protein structure with an arbitrary low-resolution protein tertiary model. The heuristic algorithm is given and then used to show that it can describe random structural alignments of proteins with different folds with good accuracy by an extreme value distribution. From this observation, a structural similarity score between two proteins or two different conformations of the same protein is derived from the likelihood of obtaining a given structural alignment by chance. The performance of the derived score is then compared with well established, consensus manual-based scores and data sets. We found that the new approach correlates better than other tools with the gold standard provided by a human evaluator. Timings indicate that the algorithm is fast enough for routine use with large databases of protein models. Overall, our results indicate that the new program (MAMMOTH) will be a good tool for protein structure comparisons in structural genomics applications. MAMMOTH is available from our web site at http://physbio.mssm.edu/~ortizg/. IS - 11 JF - Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society SN - 0961-8368 EP - 2621 TI - MAMMOTH (matching molecular models obtained from theory): an automated method for model comparison. VL - 11 SP - 2606 KW - argonne KW - automated-analysis KW - databases KW - human-coding KW - ivoc KW - model-comparison KW - proteins KW - structural-alignment KW - validation AU - Ortiz, Angel AU - Strauss, Charlie AU - Olmea, Osvaldo PY - 2002/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1110/ps.0215902 ER -