Title
PreSSAPro: a software for the prediction of secondary structure by amino acid properties.
Abstract
PreSSAPro is a software, available to the scientific community as a free web service designed to provide predictions of secondary structures starting from the amino acid sequence of a given protein. Predictions are based on our recently published work on the amino acid propensities for secondary structures in either large but not homogeneous protein data sets, as well as in smaller but homogeneous data sets corresponding to protein structural classes, i.e. all-alpha, all-beta, or alpha–beta proteins. Predictions result improved by the use of propensities evaluated for the right protein class. PreSSAPro predicts the secondary structure according to the right protein class, if known, or gives a multiple prediction with reference to the different structural classes. The comparison of these predictions represents a novel tool to evaluate what sequence regions can assume different secondary structures depending on the structural class assignment, in the perspective of identifying proteins able to fold in different conformations. The service is available at the URL http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/PRESSAPRO/.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2007.08.010
Computational Biology and Chemistry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Amino acid propensities,Structural class of proteins,Secondary structure prediction,Protein structure
Protein structure prediction,Structural alignment,Threading (protein sequence),Chemistry,Loop modeling,Chou–Fasman method,Bioinformatics,Protein secondary structure,Protein structure,Peptide sequence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
31
5
1476-9271
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Susan Costantini121.41
Giovanni Colonna243.38
Angelo Facchiano3729.55