Big Data Approach to Predict Protein Structure (IMAGE)

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Big Data Approach to Predict Protein Structure

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Homodimers are identical pairs of protein chains (proteins, green and blue) that bind to each other. Statistical analysis of protein sequences looks for mutations reflecting spatial proximity of protein segments both within the same protein (orange) and with a partner protein (red). This information can be used to predict the protein structure of the homodimer.

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