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Homologous information has proved to be very powerful in detecting remote homologs, as demonstrated by the state-of-the-art profile-based method HHpred. However, HHpred does not fare well when proteins under consideration are low-homology. A protein is low-homology if we cannot obtain sufficient amount of homologous information for it from existing protein sequence databases.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We present a profile-entropy dependent scoring function for low-homology protein threading. This method will model correlation among various protein features and determine their relative importance according to the amount of homologous information available. When proteins under consideration are low-homology, our method will rely more on structure information; otherwise, homologous information. Experimental results indicate that our threading method greatly outperforms the best profile-based method HHpred and all the top CASP8 servers on low-homology proteins. Tested on the CASP8 hard targets, our threading method is also better than all the top CASP8 servers but slightly worse than Zhang-Server. This is significant considering that Zhang-Server and other top CASP8 servers use a combination of multiple structure-prediction techniques including consensus method, multiple-template modeling, template-free modeling and model refinement while our method is a classical single-template-based threading method without any post-threading refinement.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0jinboxu@gmail.com<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq192","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,6,7]],"date-time":"2010-06-07T07:28:13Z","timestamp":1275895693000},"page":"i294-i300","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":75,"title":["Low-homology protein threading"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Jian","family":"Peng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, IL 60637, USA"}]},{"given":"Jinbo","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, IL 60637, USA"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012508063071900_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"11963","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0700922104","article-title":"The design and characterization of two proteins with 88% sequence identity but different structure and function","volume":"104","author":"Alexander","year":"2007","journal-title":"Proc. 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