Yeast protein structure prediction algorithms

Three algorithms are introduced to predict yeast protein structure: CASP, GINZU, Rosetta.

The yeast genome contains 6270 genes, whose protein products range from about 25 amino acids to nearly 5000. Proteins fold into 3-dimensional structures, and the function is dependent on this structure. Larger proteins, for which a structure is known, display a modular design where parts of the amino acid chain fold into an independent structure, a domain. Statistics from the protein data bank show that the average length of a domain is about 163 amino acids for all-alpha or all-beta proteins. Clearly, numerous proteins in yeast have more than one domain.

Yeast resource center at Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington.

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