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Bioinformatics Tools and Resources for Analyzing Protein Structures

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Proteome Bioinformatics

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1549))

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The dramatic increase in the number of protein sequences and structures deposited in biological databases has led to the development of many bioinformatics tools and programs to manage, validate, compare, and interpret this large volume of data. In addition, powerful tools are being developed to use this sequence and structural data to facilitate protein classification and infer biological function of newly identified proteins. This chapter covers freely available bioinformatics resources on the World Wide Web that are commonly used for protein structure analysis.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Australian Research Council (ARC) grant (DP150102287) and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant (APP1099151). B.H. is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT130100580).

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    Jason J. Paxman & Begoña Heras

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Paxman, J.J., Heras, B. (2017). Bioinformatics Tools and Resources for Analyzing Protein Structures. In: Keerthikumar, S., Mathivanan, S. (eds) Proteome Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1549. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6740-7_16

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