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GASS-WEB: A WEB SERVER FOR IDENTIFYING ENZYME ACTIVE SITES BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHMS
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Universidade Federal de Itajuba. Departamento de Engenharia Computacional. Itajubá, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Departamento de Ciência da Computação. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Rene Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Itajuba. Departamento de Engenharia Computacional. Itajubá, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Departamento de Ciência da Computação. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Rene Rachou. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Universidade Federal de Itajuba. Departamento de Engenharia Computacional. Itajubá, MG, Brazil
Abstract
Enzyme active sites are important and conserved functional regions of proteins whose identification can be an invaluable step toward protein function prediction. Most of the existing methods for this task are based on active site similarity and present limitations including performing only exact matches on template residues, template size restraints, despite not being capable of finding inter-domain active sites. To fill this gap, we proposed GASS-WEB, a user-friendly web server that uses GASS (Genetic Active Site Search), a method based on an evolutionary algorithm to search for similar active sites in proteins. GASS-WEB can be used under two different scenarios: (i) given a protein of interest, to match a set of specific active site templates; or (ii) given an active site template, looking for it in a database of protein structures. The method has shown to be very effective on a range of experiments and was able to correctly identify >90% of the catalogued active sites from the Catalytic Site Atlas. It also managed to achieve a Matthew correlation coefficient of 0.63 using the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP 10) dataset. In our analysis, GASS was ranking fourth among 18 methods. GASS-WEB is freely available at http://gass.unifei.edu.br/.
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