pmTM-align: scalable pairwise and multiple structure alignment with Apache Spark and OpenMP

Abstract Background Structure comparison can provide useful information to identify functional and evolutionary relationship between proteins. With the dramatic increase of protein structure data in the Protein Data Bank, computation time quickly becomes the bottleneck for large scale structure comp...

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Main Authors: Weiya Chen, Chun Yao, Yingzhong Guo, Yan Wang, Zhidong Xue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-03757-2