02500nas a2200253   4500008004100000245008800041210006900129300000700198490001400205520139900219653007701618653005701695653019901752653003901951653002701990100002402017700001402041700002402055700001802079700001502097700001502112700001302127856010602140       2007                        eng d00aThe AnnoLite and AnnoLyze programs for comparative annotation of protein structures0 aAnnoLite and AnnoLyze programs for comparative annotation of pro  aS40 v8 Suppl 43 aBACKGROUND: Advances in structural biology, including structural genomics, have resulted in a rapid increase in the number of experimentally determined protein structures. However, about half of the structures deposited by the structural genomics consortia have little or no information about their biological function. Therefore, there is a need for tools for automatically and comprehensively annotating the function of protein structures. We aim to provide such tools by applying comparative protein structure annotation that relies on detectable relationships between protein structures to transfer functional annotations. Here we introduce two programs, AnnoLite and AnnoLyze, which use the structural alignments deposited in the DBAli database. DESCRIPTION: AnnoLite predicts the SCOP, CATH, EC, InterPro, PfamA, and GO terms with an average sensitivity of  90% and average precision of  80%. AnnoLyze predicts ligand binding site and domain interaction patches with an average sensitivity of  70% and average precision of  30%, correctly localizing binding sites for small molecules in  95% of its predictions. CONCLUSION: The AnnoLite and AnnoLyze programs for comparative annotation of protein structures can reliably and automatically annotate new protein structures. The programs are fully accessible via the Internet as part of the DBAli suite of tools at http://salilab.org/DBAli/.10a*Algorithms Amino Acid Sequence Confidence Intervals Data Interpretation10aAmino Acid *Software Structure-Activity Relationship10aProtein Information Storage and Retrieval/methods Molecular Sequence Data Proteins/*chemistry/classification/*metabolism Sensitivity and Specificity Sequence Alignment/*methods Sequence Analysis10aProtein/*methods Sequence Homology10aStatistical *Databases1 aMarti-Renom, M., A.1 aRossi, A.1 aAl-Shahrour, Fatima1 aDavis, F., P.1 aPieper, U.1 aDopazo, J.1 aSali, A.  uhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17570147