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6 <strong>Function</strong> Diversity Within Folds and Superfamilies 145Table 6.1 URLs and short descriptions of databases and <strong>to</strong>ols of interest mentioned in thetextName URL DescriptionCATH http://cathwww.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/ Structural classification of proteinsSCOPhttp://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/ Structural classification of proteinsscop/SFLD http://sfld.rbvi.ucsf.edu/ <strong>Function</strong>al classification of enzymesuperfamiliesPROCOGNATE http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thorn<strong>to</strong>n-srv/databases/procognate/index.Mapping of domains <strong>to</strong> their cognateligandshtmlGene On<strong>to</strong>logy http://www.geneon<strong>to</strong>logy.org Controlled vocabulary of proteinfunctionsEChttp://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/ Classification of enzymatic reactionsiubmb/enzyme/EzCatDB http://mbs.cbrc.jp/EzCatDB/ Database of enzyme catalytic mechanismsMACiEhttp://www.ebi.ac.uk/thorn<strong>to</strong>n-srv/databases/MACiE/Database of enzyme reaction mechanismsKEGG http://www.genome.jp/kegg/ Integrated representation of genes,gene products and pathwaysFUNCAT http://mips.gsf.de/projects/funcat Annotation scheme of protein functionsDALIhttp://ekhidna.biocenter.helsinki. <strong>Structure</strong> alignmentfi/dali_serverFATCAT http://fatcat.burnham.org/ Flexible structure alignmentSSM http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd-srv/ssm/ <strong>Structure</strong> alignment by secondarystructure matchingCATHEDRALhttp://www.cathdb.info/cgi-bin/CathedralServer.plAlgorithm <strong>to</strong> detect known folds inprotein structures(Ruepp et al. 2004). KEGG and FUNCAT have traditionally been more focused onthe biological processes in which proteins are involved rather than their molecularactivities, but both of these databases can nevertheless provide very useful cluesregarding what is referred <strong>to</strong> as molecular function in GO.6.2 <strong>From</strong> Fold <strong>to</strong> <strong>Function</strong>6.2.1 Definition of a Fold6.2.1.1 General UnderstandingThe fold adopted by a protein is generally unders<strong>to</strong>od as the global arrangemen<strong>to</strong>f its main elements of secondary structures, both in terms of their relative orientationsand of their <strong>to</strong>pological connections. A major difficulty directly arises from

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