Protein Secondary Structures: Prediction

Secondary structure prediction methods are computational algorithms that predict the secondary structure of a protein (i.e. helices, strands and turns) from the primary structure (the amino acid sequence).

Keywords: neural networks; nearest neighbour; secondary structure prediction

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Chandonia, John‐Marc(Apr 2001) Protein Secondary Structures: Prediction. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003039]