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Automated comparative protein structure modeling with Swiss-model and Swiss-PdbViewer : a historical perspective
Journal
Electrophoresis
Volume
30 Suppl 1
Number
S1
Pages / Article-Number
S162-73
Keywords
Bioinformatics, Homology modeling, Protein structure, SWISS, MODEL, Swiss-PdbViewer
Abstract
SWISS-MODEL pioneered the field of automated modeling as the first protein modeling service on the Internet. In combination with the visualization tool Swiss-PdbViewer, the Internet-based Workspace and the SWISS-MODEL Repository, it provides a fully integrated sequence to structure analysis and modeling platform. This computational environment is made freely available to the scientific community with the aim to hide the computational complexity of structural bioinformatics and encourage bench scientists to make use of the ever-increasing structural information available. Indeed, over the last decade, the availability of structural information has significantly increased for many organisms as a direct consequence of the complementary nature of comparative protein modeling and experimental structure determination. This has a very positive and enabling impact on many different applications in biomedical research as described in this paper.