Modeling protein evolution using secondary structures
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Protein evolution is an important field of research in bioinformatics and catalyzes the requirement of finding alignment tools that can be used to reliably and accurately model the evolution of a protein family. TM-Align (Zhang and Skolnick, 2005) is considered to be the ideal tool for such a task, in terms of both speed and accuracy. Therefore in this study, TM-Align has been used as a point of reference to facilitate the detection of other alignment tools that are able to accurately model protein evolution. In parallel, we expand the existing protein secondary structure explorer tool, Helix Explorer (Marrakchi, 2006), so that it can also be used as a tool to model protein evolution.
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