Placeholder image of a protein
Icon representing a puzzle

548: Pre-CASP blind Alignment Puzzle 1

Closed since almost 14 years ago

Intermediate Overall Prediction

Summary

Created
April 23, 2012
Expires
Max points
100
Description

To prepare for CASP 10 (which begins next week) we want to practice for the Template-Based Modeling category by giving you some blind targets to work on. This first template-based target is very short (only 36 residues) and we are giving you the top-predicted template from 3 different alignment programs (you'll notice that one of them is very different from the other two!) The secondary structure predictions are posted in the puzzle comments.

Top groups

  1. Avatar for Go Science
    1. Go Science
    100 pts. 8,634
  2. Avatar for Void Crushers 2. Void Crushers 87 pts. 8,629
  3. Avatar for Anthropic Dreams 3. Anthropic Dreams 74 pts. 8,627
  4. Avatar for Contenders 4. Contenders 64 pts. 8,623
  5. Avatar for L'Alliance Francophone 5. L'Alliance Francophone 54 pts. 8,597
  6. Avatar for HMT heritage 6. HMT heritage 46 pts. 8,597
  7. Avatar for foldeRNA 7. foldeRNA 38 pts. 8,595
  8. Avatar for SETI.Germany 8. SETI.Germany 32 pts. 8,576
  9. Avatar for Androids 9. Androids 27 pts. 8,555
  10. Avatar for Gargleblasters 10. Gargleblasters 22 pts. 8,554
  1. Avatar for histon 371. histon Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  2. Avatar for mdjoo 372. mdjoo Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  3. Avatar for Webercz 373. Webercz Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  4. Avatar for susicc 374. susicc Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  5. Avatar for aspadistra 375. aspadistra Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  6. Avatar for watana59 376. watana59 Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  7. Avatar for tmhodge 377. tmhodge Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566
  8. Avatar for Ribo-soma 378. Ribo-soma Lv 1 1 pt. 5,566

Comments

beta_helix Staff Lv 1

Here is the sequence logo predicted by the SAM server.

H = helix
E = sheet
C = loop (or coil)

The taller the letter at each position, the higher the probability of that specific secondary structure for that amino acid.

For example, the Phenylalanine at residue 2 is mostly predicted to be part of a sheet. However, the Phenylalanines at residues 24 & 26 are predicted to be anything.