African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12487

Full Length Research Paper

Are specialized servers better at predicting protein structures than stand alone software?

B. N. Saeed1* and H. Q. Rabail2      
1Department of Biosciences, SZABIST, Karachi, Pakistan. 2Department of Computer Science, SZABIST Karachi, Pakistan.  
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 01 June 2012
  •  Published: 31 July 2012

Abstract

This research study answers the question that technology is the best for predicting protein structures. Stand-alone software only depend on protein structure prediction algorithms, while web servers consult a number of other sources such as meta servers and protein data banks to produce a protein structure achieved through consensus.

 

Key words: Protein structure prediction, web servers, meta servers, stand-alone software, insulin.