Defining and characterizing protein surface using alpha shapes
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Defining and characterizing protein surface using alpha shapes.
The alpha shape of a molecule is a geometrical representation that provides a unique surface decomposition and a means to filter atomic contacts. We used it to revisit and unify the definition and computation of surface residues, contiguous patches, and curvature. These descriptors are evaluated and compared with former approaches on 85 proteins for which both bound and unbound forms are availa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0887-3585,1097-0134
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22301