Classifi cation methodologies

As detection of relationships improves with more samples and better methodology, families and super- families can become more populated. At present, structur- al relationships provide the highest level of classification, and structure-based databases classify proteins with similar ‘folds’. These classifications reveal that whenever structures are known for two proteins that are considered members of the same family or superfamily, the structures are similar, whereas the converse is often not true.

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