Abstract
Recent successes of contact-guided protein structure prediction methods have revived interest in solving the long-standing problem of ab initio protein structure prediction. With homology modeling failing for many protein sequences that do not have templates, contact-guided structure prediction has shown promise, and consequently, contact prediction has gained a lot of interest recently. Although a few dozen contact prediction tools are already currently available as web servers and downloadables, not enough research has been done towards using existing measures like precision and recall to evaluate these contacts with the goal of building three-dimensional models. Moreover, when we do not have a native structure for a set of predicted contacts, the only analysis we can perform is a simple contact map visualization of the predicted contacts. A wider and more rigorous assessment of the predicted contacts is needed, in order to build tertiary structure models. This chapter discusses instructions and protocols for using tools and applying techniques in order to assess predicted contacts for building three-dimensional models.
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Adhikari, B., Bhattacharya, D., Cao, R., Cheng, J. (2017). Assessing Predicted Contacts for Building Protein Three-Dimensional Models. In: Zhou, Y., Kloczkowski, A., Faraggi, E., Yang, Y. (eds) Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1484. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6406-2_9
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