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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 77, Issue -, Pages 173-180Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22532
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CASP8; model quality assessment; QMEAN; scoring function; protein structure homology modeling; mean force potential
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Identifying the best candidate model among an ensemble of alternatives is crucial in protein structure prediction. For this purpose, scoring functions have been developed which either calculate a quality estimate on the basis of a single model or derive a score from the information contained in the ensemble of models generated for a given sequence (i.e., consensus methods). At CASP7, consensus methods have performed considerably better than scoring functions operating on single models. However, consensus methods tend to fail if the best models are far from the center of the dominant structural cluster. At CASP8, we investigated whether our hybrid method QMEANclust may overcome this limitation by combining the QMEAN composite scoring function operating on single models with consensus information. We participated with four different scoring functions in the quality assessment category. The QMEANclust consensus scoring function turned out to be a successful method both for the ranking of entire models but especially for the estimation of the per-residue model quality. In this article, we briefly describe the two scoring functions QMEAN and QMEANclust and discuss their performance in the context of what went right and wrong at CASP8. Both scoring functions are publicly available athttp://swissmodel.expasy.org/qmean/.
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