Bioinformatics
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BriX

BriX is a vast database of protein fragments, clustered on their backbone similarity. BriX contains fragments from 7290 proteins from the Astral40 set, fragmented in lengths ranging from 4 to 14 amino acids and clustered against 6 different distance thresholds on similarity of the protein backbone. Loop BriX contains loop fragments from 14.525 proteins from the Astral95 set, clustered according to end-to-distance and anchor residue superposition.

References
  • BriX: a database of protein building blocks for structural analysis, modeling and design.
    Vanhee P, Verschueren E, Baeten L, Stricher F, Serrano L, Rousseau F, Schymkowitz J.
    Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D435-42.
    PubMed
  • Reconstruction of protein backbones from the BriX collection of canonical protein fragments.
    Baeten L, Reumers J, Tur V, Stricher F, Lenaerts T, Serrano L, Rousseau F, Schymkowitz J.
    PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 May 23;4(5):e1000083.
    PubMed