The MEMPACK alpha-helical transmembrane protein structure prediction server.

Nugent, Timothy; Ward, Sean; Jones, David T · Bioinformatics · 2011

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The experimental difficulties of alpha-helical transmembrane protein structure determination make this class of protein an important target for sequence-based structure prediction tools. The MEMPACK prediction server allows users to submit a transmembrane protein sequence and returns transmembrane topology, lipid exposure, residue contacts, helix-helix interactions and helical packing arrangement predictions in both plain text and graphical formats using a number of novel machine learning-based algorithms. The server can be accessed as a new component of the PSIPRED portal by at http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/psipred/.

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