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Cube - An Online Tool for Comparison and Contrasting of Protein Sequences

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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 11, Pages -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079480

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  1. Biomedical Research Council of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

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When comparing sequences of similar proteins, two kinds of questions can be asked, and the related two kinds of inference made. First, one may ask to what degree they are similar, and then, how they differ. In the first case one may tentatively conclude that the conserved elements common to all sequences are of central and common importance to the protein's function. In the latter case the regions of specialization may be discriminative of the function or binding partners across subfamilies of related proteins. Experimental efforts - mutagenesis or pharmacological intervention - can then be pointed in either direction, depending on the context of the study. Cube simplifies this process for users that already have their favorite sets of sequences, and helps them collate the information by visualization of the conservation and specialization scores on the sequence and on the structure, and by spreadsheet tabulation. All information can be visualized on the spot, or downloaded for reference and later inspection. Server homepage: http://eopsf.org/cube

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