PeCoP: automatic determination of persistently conserved positions in protein families | Laboratory of Professor Hanah Margalit

PeCoP: automatic determination of persistently conserved positions in protein families

Date Published:

SEP

Abstract:

PeCoP is a WWW-based service which accepts a protein sequence, and reports positions that are conserved in close and distant sequence family members. The collation of family members is performed using iterative PSI-BLAST runs. Examining positional conservation in close and distant family members enables a better selection of positions that may play a role in determining the protein's structure and function.

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DOI:

10.1093/bioinformatics/18.9.1276