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* Connect to the Psipred system at [http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pripred/ bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/pripred/]
  
  

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Finding the Secondary Structure of a Protein

The page on Secondary Structures in Wikipedia defines it well:

In biochemistry and structural biology, secondary structure is the general three-dimensional form of local segments of biopolymers such as proteins and nucleic acids (DNA/RNA). It does not, however, describe specific atomic positions in three-dimensional space, which are considered to be tertiary structure.
Secondary structure is formally defined by the hydrogen bonds of the biopolymer, as observed in an atomic-resolution structure. In proteins, the secondary structure is defined by patterns of hydrogen bonds between backbone amide and carboxyl groups (sidechain-mainchain and sidechain-sidechain hydrogen bonds are irrelevant), where the DSSP definition of a hydrogen bond is used. In nucleic acids, the secondary structure is defined by the hydrogen bonding between the nitrogenous bases.

Goal

In this lab we use the PSIPRED system to get the secondary structure of a protein.

Steps




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