something, and leave the interpretation to the user. The reason that
consistency is of paramount importance in assigning secondary structure is
so that different scientists can talk about the same protein in context. If
everyone uses the same definition of secondary structure - "helix 1" is
Warren -
The advantage of using DSSP over another heuristic method, is that it is a
standard.
A DSSP helix is a DSSP helix everywhere, even if a crystallographer might
extend the end a bit.
Ben
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Ben HitzExelixis
Computational Biology and Informatics
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