Title
QUASAR--scoring and ranking of sequence-structure alignments.
Abstract
Sequence-structure alignments are a common means for protein structure prediction in the fields of fold recognition and homology modeling, and there is a broad variety of programs that provide such alignments based on sequence similarity, secondary structure or contact potentials. Nevertheless, finding the best sequence-structure alignment in a pool of alignments remains a difficult problem. QUASAR (quality of sequence-structure alignments ranking) provides a unifying framework for scoring sequence-structure alignments that aids finding well-performing combinations of well-known and custom-made scoring schemes. Those scoring functions can be benchmarked against widely accepted quality scores like MaxSub, TMScore, Touch and APDB, thus enabling users to test their own alignment scores against 'standard-of-truth' structure-based scores. Furthermore, individual score combinations can be optimized with respect to benchmark sets based on known structural relationships using QUASAR's in-built optimization routines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1093/bioinformatics/bti712
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
scoring sequence,best sequence,sequence similarity,custom-made scoring scheme,quasar contact,scoring function,secondary structure,structure alignment,protein structure prediction,accepted quality score
Protein structure prediction,Data mining,Ranking,Computer science,Threading (protein sequence),Software,Documentation,Java,Homology modeling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
21
24
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.42
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabian Birzele1745.52
Jan E. Gewehr28117.19
Ralf Zimmer310.42