ProML - the protein markup language for specification of protein sequences, structures and families

Publication Type		Journal Article
Authors		Daniel Hanisch, Ralf Zimmer, Thomas Lengauer
Year of Publication		2002
Journal		In Silico Biol
Volume		2
Number		3
Pages		313-24
Keywords		ProML
Citation Key		bioinflmu-524
Document visibility		Global publication list
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Abstract

We propose a specification language ProML for protein sequences, structures, and families based on the open XML standard. The language allows for portable, system-independent, machine-parsable and human-readable representation of essential features of proteins. The language is of immediate use for several bioinformatics applications: we discuss clustering of proteins into families and the representation of the specific shared features of the respective clusters. Moreover, we use ProML for specification of data used in fold recognition bench-marks exploiting experimentally derived distance constraints.