ComplexContact: a web server for inter-protein contact prediction using deep learning

H Zeng, S Wang, T Zhou, F Zhao, X Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
H Zeng, S Wang, T Zhou, F Zhao, X Li, Q Wu, J Xu
Nucleic acids research, 2018academic.oup.com
Abstract ComplexContact (http://raptorx2. uchicago. edu/ComplexContact/) is a web server
for sequence-based interfacial residue-residue contact prediction of a putative protein
complex. Interfacial residue-residue contacts are critical for understanding how proteins form
complex and interact at residue level. When receiving a pair of protein sequences,
ComplexContact first searches for their sequence homologs and builds two paired multiple
sequence alignments (MSA), then it applies co-evolution analysis and a CASP-winning …
Abstract
ComplexContact (http://raptorx2.uchicago.edu/ComplexContact/) is a web server for sequence-based interfacial residue-residue contact prediction of a putative protein complex. Interfacial residue-residue contacts are critical for understanding how proteins form complex and interact at residue level. When receiving a pair of protein sequences, ComplexContact first searches for their sequence homologs and builds two paired multiple sequence alignments (MSA), then it applies co-evolution analysis and a CASP-winning deep learning (DL) method to predict interfacial contacts from paired MSAs and visualizes the prediction as an image. The DL method was originally developed for intra-protein contact prediction and performed the best in CASP12. Our large-scale experimental test further shows that ComplexContact greatly outperforms pure co-evolution methods for inter-protein contact prediction, regardless of the species.
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