Owing to significant efforts in genome sequencing over nearly three decades (McPherson et al. 2001; Venter et al. 2001), gene sequences from many organisms have been deduced. Over 100 million nucleotide sequences from over 300 thousand different organisms have been deposited in the major DNA databases, DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank (Benson et al. 2003; Miyazaki et al. 2003; Kulikova et al. 2004), totaling almost 200 billion nucleotide bases (about the number of stars in the Milky Way). Over 5 million of these nucleotide sequences have been translated into amino acid sequences and deposited in the UniProtKB database (Release 12.8) (Bairoch et al. 2005). The protein sequences in UniParc triple this number. However, the protein sequences themselves are usually insufficient for determining protein function as the biological function of proteins is intrinsically linked to three dimensional protein structure (Skolnick et al. 2000). © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009. All rights reserved.
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Wu, S., & Zhang, Y. (2007). Protein structure prediction. In Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications (pp. 225–242). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92738-1_11
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