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These databases were created many years ago, before most CD spectrophotometers became standardized and before it was commonplace to validate X-ray structures prior to publication. The analyses presented here were undertaken to investigate the overall quality of these reference databases in light of their extensive usage in determining protein secondary structure content from CD spectra.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: The analyses show that there are a number of significant problems associated with the CD reference database sets in current use. There are disparities between CD spectra for the same protein collected by different groups. These include differences in magnitudes, peak positions or both. However, many current reference sets are now amalgamations of spectra from these groups, introducing inconsistencies that can lead to inaccuracies in the determination of secondary structure components from the CD spectra. A number of the X-ray structures used fall short on the validation criteria now employed as standard for structure determination. Many have substantial percentages of residues in the disallowed regions of the Ramachandran plot. Hence their calculated secondary structure components, used as a foundation for the reference databases, are likely to be in error. Additionally, the coverage of secondary structure space in the reference datasets is poorly correlated to the secondary structure components found in the Protein Data Bank. A conclusion is that a new reference CD database with cross-correlated, machine-independent CD spectra and validated X-ray structures that cover more secondary structure components, including diverse protein folds, is now needed. However, that reasonably accurate values for the secondary structure content of proteins can be determined from spectra is a testament to CD spectroscopy being a very powerful technique.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0r.w.janes@qmul.ac.uk<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/bti690","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,9,28]],"date-time":"2005-09-28T03:23:31Z","timestamp":1127877811000},"page":"4230-4238","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Bioinformatics analyses of circular dichroism protein reference databases"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Robert W.","family":"Janes","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2005,9,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023061010032705100_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"235","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/28.1.235","article-title":"The protein data bank","volume":"28","author":"Berman","year":"2000","journal-title":"Nucleic Acids Res."},{"key":"2023061010032705100_b2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"535","DOI":"10.1016\/S0022-2836(77)80200-3","article-title":"The protein data bank: a computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures","volume":"112","author":"Bernstein","year":"1977","journal-title":"J. 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