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At the core of the FISH (Family Identification with Structure anchored Hidden Markov models, saHMMs) server lies the midnight ASTRAL set. It is a collection of protein domains with low mutual sequence identity within homologous families, according to the structural classification of proteins, SCOP. Here, we evaluate two algorithms for creating the midnight ASTRAL set. The algorithm that limits the number of structural comparisons is about an order of magnitude faster than the all-against-all algorithm. We therefore choose the faster algorithm, although it produces slightly fewer domains in the set. We use the midnight ASTRAL set to construct the structure-anchored Hidden Markov Model data base, saHMM-db, where each saHMM represents one family. Sequence searches using saHMMs provide information about protein function, domain organization, the probable 2D and 3D structure, and can lead to the discovery of homologous domains in remotely related sequences.
The FISH server is accessible at http://babel.ucmp.umu.se/fish/.
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Tångrot, J., Wang, L., Kågström, B., Sauer, U.H. (2007). Design, Construction and Use of the FISH Server. In: Kågström, B., Elmroth, E., Dongarra, J., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Applied Parallel Computing. State of the Art in Scientific Computing. PARA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75755-9_78
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