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Accurate comparative analysis tools for low-homology proteins remains a difficult challenge in computational biology, especially sequence alignment and consensus folding problems. We presentpartiFold-Align, the first algorithm for simultaneous alignment and consensus folding of unaligned protein sequences; the algorithm’s complexity is polynomial in time and space. Algorithmically,partiFold-Align exploits sparsity in the set of super-secondary structure pairings and alignment candidates to achieve an effectively cubic running time for simultaneous pairwise alignment and folding. We demonstrate the efficacy of these techniques on transmembrane β-barrel proteins, an important yet difficult class of proteins with few known three-dimensional structures. Testing against structurally derived sequence alignments,partiFold-Align significantly outperforms state-of-the-art pairwise sequence alignment tools in the most difficult low sequence homology case and improves secondary structure prediction where current approaches fail. Importantly, partiFold-Align requires no prior training. These general techniques are widely applicable to many more protein families. partiFold-Align is available at http://partiFold.csail.mit.edu.
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Waldispühl, J., O’Donnell, C.W., Will, S., Devadas, S., Backofen, R., Berger, B. (2009). Simultaneous Alignment and Folding of Protein Sequences. In: Batzoglou, S. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5541. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02008-7_25
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