Summary: Genetic Threading
J. Yadgari 1 , A. Amir 1y , R. Unger 2\Lambdaz
July 2000
1 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
2 Department of Life Sciences
Bar­Ilan University
Ramat­Gan, 52900, Israel
\Lambda Corresponding author: ron@biocom1.ls.biu.ac.il
Tel: 972­3­5318124
Fax: 972­3­5351824
y Partially supported by NSF grant CCR­96­10170 and BSF grant 96­00509.
z Partially supported by ISF grant 569/98.

Abstract
The biological function of proteins is dependent, to a large extent, on their native three
dimensional conformation. Thus, it is important to know the structure of as many pro­
teins as possible. Since experimental methods for structure determination are very tedious,
there is a significant effort to calculate the structure of a protein from its linear sequence.
Direct methods of calculating structure from sequence are not available yet. Thus, an in­
direct approach to predict the conformation of protein, called threading, is discussed. In

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