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Wang, C; Zhang, HC; Zheng, WM![]() | |
FALCON@home: a high-throughput protein structure prediction server based on remote homologue recognition | |
Source Publication | BIOINFORMATICS
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Language | 英语 |
Abstract | The protein structure prediction approaches can be categorized into template-based modeling (including homology modeling and threading) and free modeling. However, the existing threading tools perform poorly on remote homologous proteins. Thus, improving fold recognition for remote homologous proteins remains a challenge. Besides, the proteome-wide structure prediction poses another challenge of increasing prediction throughput. In this study, we presented FALCON@home as a protein structure prediction server focusing on remote homologue identification. The design of FALCON@home is based on the observation that a structural template, especially for remote homologous proteins, consists of conserved regions interweaved with highly variable regions. The highly variable regions lead to vague alignments in threading approaches. Thus, FALCON@home first extracts conserved regions from each template and then aligns a query protein with conserved regions only rather than the full-length template directly. This helps avoid the vague alignments rooted in highly variable regions, improving remote homologue identification. We implemented FALCON@home using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure of Network Computing (BOINC) volunteer computing protocol. With computation power donated from over 20 000 volunteer CPUs, FALCON@home shows a throughput as high as processing of over 1000 proteins per day. In the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP11), the FALCON@homebased prediction was ranked the 12th in the template-based modeling category. As an application, the structures of 880 mouse mitochondria proteins were predicted, which revealed the significant correlation between protein half-lives and protein structural factors. |
2016 | |
Volume | 32Issue:3Pages:462-464 |
Subject Area | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ; Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology ; Computer Science ; Mathematical & Computational Biology ; Mathematics |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv581 |
Indexed By | SCI |
Funding Organization | National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB316502] ; National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB316502] ; National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB316502] ; National Basic Research Program of China [2012CB316502] ; National Nature Science Foundation of China [11175224, 11121403, 31270834, 61272318, 30870572, 61303161] ; National Nature Science Foundation of China [11175224, 11121403, 31270834, 61272318, 30870572, 61303161] ; National Nature Science Foundation of China [11175224, 11121403, 31270834, 61272318, 30870572, 61303161] ; National Nature Science Foundation of China [11175224, 11121403, 31270834, 61272318, 30870572, 61303161] ; National Institutes of Health of USA [R21/R33-GM078601, R01-GM100701] ; National Institutes of Health of USA [R21/R33-GM078601, R01-GM100701] ; National Institutes of Health of USA [R21/R33-GM078601, R01-GM100701] ; National Institutes of Health of USA [R21/R33-GM078601, R01-GM100701] ; European Commission [306819] ; European Commission [306819] ; European Commission [306819] ; European Commission [306819] |
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Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.itp.ac.cn/handle/311006/21788 |
Collection | SCI期刊论文 |
Corresponding Author | Bu, DB (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Key Lab Intelligent Informat Proc, Beijing, Peoples R China.; Li, SC (reprint author), City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Comp Sci, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China. |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wang, C,Zhang, HC,Zheng, WM,et al. FALCON@home: a high-throughput protein structure prediction server based on remote homologue recognition[J]. BIOINFORMATICS,2016,32(3):462-464. |
APA | Wang, C.,Zhang, HC.,Zheng, WM.,Xu, D.,Zhu, JW.,...&Li, SC .(2016).FALCON@home: a high-throughput protein structure prediction server based on remote homologue recognition.BIOINFORMATICS,32(3),462-464. |
MLA | Wang, C,et al."FALCON@home: a high-throughput protein structure prediction server based on remote homologue recognition".BIOINFORMATICS 32.3(2016):462-464. |
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