Yes, I tried but these programs just assign my protein to one of the available folds/superfamilies from SCOP/CATH/Pfam. In fact I want the prediction programs.
I am working with large number of proteins. About 80% of those structures have their folds/families/superfamilies classified by CATH and SCOP (I am using CATH). Therefore, I want to predict folds for the remaining 20% of the structures also. I would like to know if there are any prediction tools that can classify those proteins into one of the CATH olds/architecture/superfamily.
Thanks!
Kisun
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If you could live with SCOP, you could use fastSCOP: http://fastscop.life.nctu.edu.tw/intro.php
From the website: "fastSCOP is a web server that rapidly identifies the structural domains and determines the evolutionary superfamilies of a query protein structure. This server uses 3D-BLAST to scan quickly a large structural classification database (SCOP1.71 with <95% identity with each other) and the top ten hit domains, which have different superfamily classifications, are obtained from the hit lists. MAMMOTH, a detailed structural alignment tool, is adopted to align these top ten structures to refine domain boundaries and to identify evolutionary superfamilies."
"I want to predict folds for the remaining 20% of the structures also."
IMHO, you cannot assign an existing SCOP class to these entries, because these 20% are novel .
It is true that approximately 20% of proteins in PDB is not associated with any known SCOP classification. SCOP curators are well aware of these group of structures. This 20% structures are not assigned a classification due to the sequence-structure diversity of those structures with rest of the members in PDB. For example the structures my contain additional embellishments in structure that will disqualify them from being a member of a particular fold/class. Some of these may get merged into existing classes in the future or depending upon the number of new members with similar features, it may add to a novel fold. As large part of SCOP is manually curate, you may need to wait until SCOP curators assign a fold details to these entries.
Thanks a lot for the insight.
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For the 20% that do not have families assigned, do you have structures or sequences only?
Structure always comes with a sequence :)