Quantification of the impact of PSI:Biology according to the annotations of the determined structures

BMC Structural Biology

William A McLaughlin¹  Elchin S Julfayev¹  Paul J DePietro¹ 

[1] Department of Basic Science, The Commonwealth Medical College, 525 Pine Street, Scranton, PA 18509, USA

关键词: Structure to function relationships;    Scientific partnerships;    Protein annotation;    Protein annotations;    Structural genomics;    Protein Structure Initiative;   

Others  :  793749
DOI  :  10.1186/1472-6807-13-24

 received in 2013-06-14, accepted in 2013-10-14,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Protein Structure Initiative:Biology (PSI:Biology) is the third phase of PSI where protein structures are determined in high-throughput to characterize their biological functions. The transition to the third phase entailed the formation of PSI:Biology Partnerships which are composed of structural genomics centers and biomedical science laboratories. We present a method to examine the impact of protein structures determined under the auspices of PSI:Biology by measuring their rates of annotations. The mean numbers of annotations per structure and per residue are examined. These are designed to provide measures of the amount of structure to function connections that can be leveraged from each structure.

Results

One result is that PSI:Biology structures are found to have a higher rate of annotations than structures determined during the first two phases of PSI. A second result is that the subset of PSI:Biology structures determined through PSI:Biology Partnerships have a higher rate of annotations than those determined exclusive of those partnerships. Both results hold when the annotation rates are examined either at the level of the entire protein or for annotations that are known to fall at specific residues within the portion of the protein that has a determined structure.

Conclusions

We conclude that PSI:Biology determines structures that are estimated to have a higher degree of biomedical interest than those determined during the first two phases of PSI based on a broad array of biomedical annotations. For the PSI:Biology Partnerships, we see that there is an associated added value that represents part of the progress toward the goals of PSI:Biology. We interpret the added value to mean that team-based structural biology projects that utilize the expertise and technologies of structural genomics centers together with biological laboratories in the community are conducted in a synergistic manner. We show that the annotation rates can be used in conjunction with established metrics, i.e. the numbers of structures and impact of publication records, to monitor the progress of PSI:Biology towards its goals of examining structure to function connections of high biomedical relevance. The metric provides an objective means to quantify the overall impact of PSI:Biology as it uses biomedical annotations from external sources.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 DePietro et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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