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Question about freak structures used in prediction testing

Robert Russell russell at icrf.icnet.uk
Thu Jul 20 05:17:40 EST 1995


Two things:

1) I wouldn't recommend using any structure with such a poor resolution
(i.e. restrict your data set to those structures that are refined, and
to a resolution of at least 2.5 angstroms or better)

2) 2TMA (Tropomyosin) is not a structure that should be included in an
assesment
of any method for prediction of globular protein secondary structures, since it
is not globular.  

I would suggest that you have a look through your dataset and remove other
structures having these problems.  Nobody would expect such things to 
be included in a training/test set, since secondary structure definitions 
are often unreliable, making assessment suspect.

Good luck.

Rob

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