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However, alignment errors and template selection are still the main bottleneck for current template-base modeling methods, especially when proteins under consideration are distantly related.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We present a novel context-specific alignment potential for protein threading, including alignment and template selection. Our alignment potential measures the log-odds ratio of one alignment being generated from two related proteins to being generated from two unrelated proteins, by integrating both local and global context-specific information. The local alignment potential quantifies how well one sequence residue can be aligned to one template residue based on context-specific information of the residues. The global alignment potential quantifies how well two sequence residues can be placed into two template positions at a given distance, again based on context-specific information. By accounting for correlation among a variety of protein features and making use of context-specific information, our alignment potential is much more sensitive than the widely used context-independent or profile-based scoring function. Experimental results confirm that our method generates significantly better alignments and threading results than the best profile-based methods on several large benchmarks. Our method works particularly well for distantly related proteins or proteins with sparse sequence profiles because of the effective integration of context-specific, structure and global information.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: http:\/\/raptorx.uchicago.edu\/download\/.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: jinboxu@gmail.com<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,6,27]],"date-time":"2013-06-27T05:33:26Z","timestamp":1372311206000},"page":"i257-i265","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":128,"title":["Protein threading using context-specific alignment potential"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Jianzhu","family":"Ma","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Feng","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jinbo","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,6,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062614331144800_btt210-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"261","DOI":"10.1016\/S0304-3975(98)00089-9","article-title":"On the approximation of protein threading","volume":"210","author":"Akutsu","year":"1999","journal-title":"Theor. 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