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ALIGN : a program to superimpose protein coordinates, accounting for insertions and deletions
Author(s) -
Cohen G. E.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of applied crystallography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.429
H-Index - 162
ISSN - 1600-5767
DOI - 10.1107/s0021889897006729
Subject(s) - superposition principle , protein structure , computer program , structural alignment , computational biology , protein superfamily , genetics , crystallography , computer science , biology , sequence alignment , physics , programming language , chemistry , gene , peptide sequence , biochemistry , quantum mechanics
The alignment and superposition of protein structures are sometimes complicated by the presence of insertions or deletions in one structure or the other. The program ALIGN [Satow, Cohen, Padlan & Davies (1986). J. Mol. Biol. 190 , 593–604] was written to address this problem. The program provides information in its analysis of results to facilitate the understanding of transformations between structurally homologous subunits of protein structures.