Progress towards mapping the universe of protein folds
Open Access
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Springer Nature in Genome Biology
- Vol. 5 (5) , 107
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-5-107
Abstract
Although the precise aims differ between the various international structural genomics initiatives currently aiming to illuminate the universe of protein folds, many selectively target protein families for which the fold is unknown. How well can the current set of known protein families and folds be used to estimate the total number of folds in nature, and will structural genomics initiatives yield representatives for all the major protein families within a reasonable time scale?Keywords
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