Abstract
Sequence alignment remains a fundamental tool in most tasks related to the prediction of protein sequence and structure. A C++ class library was developed to facilitate the rapid implementation of a variety of state-of-the-art pairwise sequence alignment techniques. These range from simple sequence to sequence to the advanced profile to profile alignments with optional secondary structure information. Suboptimal alignments, frequently used to estimate regions of confidence, can also be generated. The object oriented design facilitates rapid implementation, testing and extension of existing functionality. A simple web interface, which can also be useful in bioinformatics education, is also provided. Source code, online documentation and a prototypical web interface are freely accessible to academic users from the URL: http://protein.cribi.unipd.it/align/. A sample case study in the modelling of human Cytochrome P450 is discussed.
Keywords: Human Cyt P450, CYP3A4, FASTA format, alignment combinations, library design
Current Drug Discovery Technologies
Title: Align: a C++ Class Library and Web Server for Rapid Sequence Alignment Prototyping
Volume: 3 Issue: 3
Author(s): Silvio C.E. Tosatto, Alessandro Albiero, Alessandra Mantovan, Carlo Ferrari, Eckart Bindewald and Stefano Toppo
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Keywords: Human Cyt P450, CYP3A4, FASTA format, alignment combinations, library design
Abstract: Sequence alignment remains a fundamental tool in most tasks related to the prediction of protein sequence and structure. A C++ class library was developed to facilitate the rapid implementation of a variety of state-of-the-art pairwise sequence alignment techniques. These range from simple sequence to sequence to the advanced profile to profile alignments with optional secondary structure information. Suboptimal alignments, frequently used to estimate regions of confidence, can also be generated. The object oriented design facilitates rapid implementation, testing and extension of existing functionality. A simple web interface, which can also be useful in bioinformatics education, is also provided. Source code, online documentation and a prototypical web interface are freely accessible to academic users from the URL: http://protein.cribi.unipd.it/align/. A sample case study in the modelling of human Cytochrome P450 is discussed.
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Silvio C.E. Tosatto , Albiero Alessandro, Mantovan Alessandra, Ferrari Carlo, Bindewald Eckart and Toppo Stefano, Align: a C++ Class Library and Web Server for Rapid Sequence Alignment Prototyping, Current Drug Discovery Technologies 2006; 3 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157016306780136754
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