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Vector Alignment Search Tool (RRID:SCR_010655)
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/VAST/vast.shtml

Proper Citation: Vector Alignment Search Tool (RRID:SCR_010655)

Description: VAST is a computer algorithm developed at NCBI and used to identify similar protein 3-dimensional structures by purely geometric criteria, and to identify distant homologs that cannot be recognized by sequence comparison. Related structures for every structure in MMDB are pre-computed using VAST and accessible via links on the MMDB Structure Summary pages. The VAST Search page also allows you to compare the coordinates of a newly resolved structure in PDB format against all structures in MMDB to find its neighbors. Protein structure neighbors in Entrez are determined by direct comparison of 3-dimensional protein structures with the VAST algorithm. Each of the more than 87,804 domains in MMDB is compared to every other one. From the MMDB Structure summary pages, retrieved via Entrez, structure neighbors are available for protein chains and individual structural domains. If you already know a PDB/MMDB-Id you can try this at once, using the input form in the right column. VAST Search is a service that allows searching for structural neighbors starting with a set of 3D-coordinates specified by the user. This service is meant to be used with newly determined protein structures that are not yet part of MMDB. Structure neighbors for proteins already in MMDB have been pre-computed and can simply be looked up from MMDB''s Structure summary pages!

Abbreviations: VAST

Synonyms: Vector Alignment Search Tool (VAST)

Resource Type: production service resource, analysis service resource, service resource

Defining Citation: PMID:8804824, PMID:8710828

Keywords: gold standard, bio.tools

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