Background: Combinatorial regulation of transcription factors (TFs) is important in determining the complex gene expression patterns particularly in higher organisms. Deciphering ...
Background: Protein structure analysis and comparison are major challenges in structural bioinformatics. Despite the existence of many tools and algorithms, very few of them have ...
Background: Understanding how proteins fold is essential to our quest in discovering how life works at the molecular level. Current computation power enables researchers to produc...
Hong Sun, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Motonori Ota, Yus...
Background: Predicting the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence is a long-standing goal in computational/molecular biology. The discrimination of ...
Background: Experimentally determined protein structures may contain errors and require validation. Conformational criteria based on the Ramachandran plot are mainly used to disti...