3D-Jury is a metaserver

Metaserver

A MetaServer is considered a central broker providing a collated view for dispersed web resources. It is used to collect data from various web services, web pages, databases, or other online resources/repositories and then present the combined results to the client using a standard web protocol A...

 that aggregates and compares models from various protein structure prediction

Protein structure prediction

Protein structure prediction is the prediction of the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence — that is, the prediction of its secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure from its primary structure. Structure prediction is fundamentally different from the inverse...

 servers. It takes in groups of predictions made by a collection of servers and assigns each pair a 3D-Jury score, based on structural similarity. The score is generated by counting the number of C_α

Alpha carbon

The alpha carbon in organic chemistry refers to the first carbon that attaches to a functional group . By extension, the second carbon is the beta carbon, and so on....

 atoms in the two predictions within 3.5 Å

Å

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 of each other after being superpositioned. To improve accuracy of the final model, users can select the prediction servers from which to aggregate results.

The Robetta automatic protein structure prediction server incorporates 3D-Jury into its prediction pipeline.

External links

• BioInfoBank Meta Server 3D-Jury web interface