HOW HOMOLOGS HELP TO PREDICT PROTEIN FOLDS

Rykunov D. S., Lobanov M. Yu., Reva B. A., Finkelstein A. V.

Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142292 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia; 2 Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142292 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia 3 Institute of Mathematical P

It is shown that fold recognition by both no-gap and gapped threading is improved significantly when a set of homologous sequences rather than only one of them is used.