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Some of our studies involving STAMP

STAMP has been invovled in numerous published studies. Several novel similarities uncovered by STAMP have appeared in the literature: the similarity between the SH2 domain and domain II of E. coli biotin operon protein [9]; the similarity between HIV matrix protein p17 and Interferon gamma [16] and numerous others [12,21,22].

STAMP has also aided several other investigations into protein structure. STAMP alignments have been used to determine the best accuracy of secondary structure prediction from multiple sequence alignment [10]. It has been used to investigate the conservation of various protein structural features across structural similar (but apparently non-homologous) proteins [11,13] and has been used for several investigations into protein domain structure [12,23,24].

STAMP has also proved extremely useful when assessing the results of protein structure prediction by fold recognition [25,26,27].

Most recently, STAMP has been used to investigate various aspects of protein function and evolution, in addition to doing large scale superimpositions of the entire protein database according to SCOP [13,14], and problems associated with alignments for protein comparative modelling [28].


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Geoff Barton
1999-04-16