Overview
- Comprehensively covers all recent developments in structure-based function prediction of proteins
- Contains abundant links to publicly available resources
- Genuinely world class roster of authors
- Includes full coverage of techniques to generate and infer model protein structures
- Separate chapters of case studies illustrating current practice in structure-based function prediction
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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From Structures to Functions
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Proteins lie at the heart of almost all biological processes and have an incredibly wide range of activities. Central to the function of all proteins is their ability to adopt, stably or sometimes transiently, structures that allow for interaction with other molecules. An understanding of the structure of a protein can therefore lead us to a much improved picture of its molecular function. This realisation has been a prime motivation of recent Structural Genomics projects, involving large-scale experimental determination of protein structures, often those of proteins about which little is known of function. These initiatives have, in turn, stimulated the massive development of novel methods for prediction of protein function from structure. Since model structures may also take advantage of new function prediction algorithms, the first part of the book deals with the various ways in which protein structures may be predicted or inferred, including specific treatment of membrane and intrinsically disordered proteins. A detailed consideration of current structure-based function prediction methodologies forms the second part of this book, which concludes with two chapters, focusing specifically on case studies, designed to illustrate the real-world application of these methods. With bang up-to-date texts from world experts, and abundant links to publicly available resources, this book will be invaluable to anyone who studies proteins and the endlessly fascinating relationship between their structure and function.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Protein Structure to Function with Bioinformatics
Editors: Daniel John Rigden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9058-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8058-5Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9058-5Published: 11 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 328
Topics: Protein Science, Biomedicine general, Bioinformatics, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences, Life Sciences, general, Proteomics