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However, incorporation of the latter terms varies a lot between existing methods, and together with many examples of distant relations not recognized even by the best methods, suggests that further improvements are still possible.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results:\u2003Here we describe recent improvements to the fold and function assignment system (FFAS) method, including adding optimized structural features (experimental or predicted), \u2018symmetrical\u2019 Z-score calculation and re-ranking the templates with a neural network. The alignment accuracy in the new FFAS-3D is now 11% higher than the original and comparable with the most accurate template-based structure prediction algorithms. At the same time, FFAS-3D has high success rate at the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) family, superfamily and fold levels. Importantly, FFAS-3D results are not highly correlated with other programs suggesting that it may significantly improve meta-predictions. FFAS-3D does not require 3D structures of the templates, as using predicted features instead of structure-derived does not lead to the decrease of accuracy. Because of that, FFAS-3D can be used for databases other than Protein Data Bank (PDB) such as Protein families database or Clusters of orthologous groups thus extending its applications to functional annotations of genomes and protein families.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation:\u2003FFAS-3D is available at http:\/\/ffas.godziklab.org.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0adam@godziklab.org<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary Information:\u2003Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt578","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,10,16]],"date-time":"2013-10-16T04:00:10Z","timestamp":1381896010000},"page":"660-667","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":104,"title":["FFAS-3D: improving fold recognition by including optimized structural features and template re-ranking"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Dong","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, 2Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0446, USA and 3Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Fahad Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80216, Jeddah 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"}]},{"given":"Lukasz","family":"Jaroszewski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, 2Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0446, USA and 3Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Fahad Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80216, Jeddah 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, 2Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0446, USA and 3Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Fahad Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. Box 80216, Jeddah 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"}]},{"given":"Zhanwen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, 2Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0446, USA and 3Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research (CEGMR), King Fahad Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, P.O. 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