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- <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
- <pkgmetadata>
- <maintainer type="project">
- <email>sci-chemistry@gentoo.org</email>
- <name>Gentoo Chemistry Project</name>
- </maintainer>
- <longdescription>
- MM-align is an algorithm for structurally aligning multiple-chain
- protein-protein complexes. The algorithm is built on a heuristic
- iteration of a modified Needleman-Wunsch dynamic programming (DP)
- algorithm, with the alignment score specified by the inter-complex residue
- distances. The multiple chains in each complex are first joined, in every
- possible order, and then simultaneously aligned with cross-chain alignments
- prevented. The alignments of interface residues are enhanced by an
- interface-specific weighting factor. An optimal alignment between two complexes,
- as well as the overall TM-score, will be reported for each comparison.
- What is the difference between TM-align and MM-align? TM-align is for aligning
- monomer protein structures while MM-align is designed for aligning
- multiple-chain protein complex structures. Although one can still use TM-align
- to align protein complexes after manually joining the chains, this will lead
- to suboptimal alignments with unphysical cross alignments. Therefore, the
- best result will be obtained if one uses TM-align to monomer structures and
- MM-align for multimer structures.
- </longdescription>
- </pkgmetadata>
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