@Article{cmes.2010.068.221,
AUTHOR = {Chikit Au, Yiyu Cai, Jianmin Zheng, Tony Woo},
TITLE = {Orienting a Protein Model by Crossing Number to Generate the Characteristic Views for Identification},
JOURNAL = {Computer Modeling in Engineering \& Sciences},
VOLUME = {68},
YEAR = {2010},
NUMBER = {3},
PAGES = {221--238},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CMES/v68n3/33411},
ISSN = {1526-1506},
ABSTRACT = {A protein model (such as a ribbon model) can be created from the atomic coordinates in the protein data base files. These coordinates are obtained by X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy with the protein arbitrarily oriented.
As such, identifying or comparing a novel structure with a known item using protein model in the protein data base can be a timely process since a large number of transformations may be involved. The identification efficiency will be improved if the protein models are uniformly oriented. This paper presents an approach to orient a protein model to generate the characteristic views with minimum and maximum crossings respectively. The projection directions for these characteristic views are determined by a set of crossing maps (C-maps). Re-orientating the protein models in the protein data base to two characteristic views will facilitate the process of identification.},
DOI = {10.3970/cmes.2010.068.221}
}