GalaxyGemini: a web server for protein homo-oligomer structure prediction based on similarity

Bioinformatics. 2013 Apr 15;29(8):1078-80. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt079. Epub 2013 Feb 14.

Abstract

Summary: A large number of proteins function as homo-oligomers; therefore, predicting homo-oligomeric structure of proteins is of primary importance for understanding protein function at the molecular level. Here, we introduce a web server for prediction of protein homo-oligomer structure. The server takes a protein monomer structure as input and predicts its homo-oligomer structure from oligomer templates selected based on sequence and tertiary/quaternary structure similarity. Using protein model structures as input, the server shows clear improvement over the best methods of CASP9 in predicting oligomeric structures from amino acid sequences.

Availability: http://galaxy.seoklab.org/gemini.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Internet
  • Protein Multimerization*
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • Software*
  • Structural Homology, Protein

Substances

  • Proteins