State-of-the-art bioinformatics protein structure prediction tools (Review)

Int J Mol Med. 2011 Sep;28(3):295-310. doi: 10.3892/ijmm.2011.705. Epub 2011 May 23.

Abstract

Knowledge of the native structure of a protein could provide an understanding of the molecular basis of its function. However, in the postgenomics era, there is a growing gap between proteins with experimentally determined structures and proteins without known structures. To deal with the overwhelming data, a collection of automated methods as bioinformatics tools which determine the structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence have emerged. The aim of this paper is to provide the experimental biologists with a set of cutting-edge, carefully evaluated, user-friendly computational tools for protein structure prediction that would be helpful for the interpretation of their results and the rational design of new experiments.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Amino Acid Substitution
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Databases, Genetic
  • Internet
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phylogeny
  • Protein Conformation*
  • Protein Folding
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Proteins / genetics
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software

Substances

  • Proteins