General Methods for Searching Similar Structural Motifs

General Methods for Searching Similar Structural Motifs 

One approach, belonging to the first group of methods mentioned above, for performing searches using 3D templates is TESS (template search and superimposition) [67]. TESS is based on a geometrical hashing algorithm and allows 

A related method for searching triad-type sidechain patterns using a multidimensional index tree was reported by Hamelryck [70], With this approach, mirror images of patterns are detected, which appear to be very common among metal binding sites. 

Another program suite for finding templates and particular motifs in a huge preprocessed database containing common amino acid configurations was reported by Oldfield [86], 

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