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These include three new sequence-structure alignment programs: 3D-Coffee, Staccato and SAlign, plus five homology modelling programs and their respective loop building methods: Builder, Nest, Modeller, SegMod\/ENCAD and Swiss-Model. The SABmark database provided 123 targets with at least five templates from the same SCOP family and sequence identities \u226450%.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: When using Modeller as the common modelling program, 3D-Coffee outperforms Staccato and SAlign using both multiple templates and the best single template, and across the sequence identity range 20\u201350%. The mean model RMSD generated from 3D-Coffee using multiple templates is 15 and 28% (or using single templates, 3 and 13%) better than those generated by Staccato and Salign, respectively. 3D-Coffee gives equivalent modelling accuracy from multiple and single templates, but Staccato and SAlign are more successful with single templates, their quality deteriorating as additional lower sequence identity templates are added. Evaluating the different homology modelling programs, on average Modeller performs marginally better in overall modelling than the others tested. However, on average Nest produces the best loops with an 8% improvement by mean RMSD compared to the loops generated by Builder.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0r.m.jackson@leeds.ac.uk.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btm262","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,5,18]],"date-time":"2007-05-18T16:49:30Z","timestamp":1179506970000},"page":"1901-1908","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":77,"title":["An evaluation of automated homology modelling methods at low target\u2013template sequence similarity"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"James A. 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