Work place: Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566, Egypt
E-mail: mhashem@cis.asu.edu.eg
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Research Interests: Computer Science & Information Technology, Computer systems and computational processes, Computer Networks, Information Security
Biography
Mohamed A Hashem is a Professor of information systems. He received his B.Sc. in Elec. Eng. & Communications, from Military Technical Collage (M.T.C), Cairo, Egypt, 1976. He received his M. Sc. and Ph.D. in Elec. Eng. & Communications from faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, in 1990 and 1996, respectively. His research interest includes Computer Networks and Information Security.
By Huda A. Maghawry Mostafa G. M. Mostafa Mohamed H. Abdul-Aziz Tarek F. Gharib
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2015.10.07, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2015
The large amounts of available protein structures emerges the need for computational methods for protein function prediction. Predicting protein function is mainly based on finding similarities between proteins with unknown function with already annotated proteins. This may be achieved using different protein characteristics: sequences, interactions, localization, structure and or psychochemical. A lot of review papers mainly focus on sequence and psychochemical features-based methods. This is because sequence and psychochemical data are easy to deal with and to interpret the results, and much available compared to protein structures. However, structure-based computational methods provide additional accuracy and reliability of protein function prediction. Therefore, unlike many review papers, this paper presents an up-to-date review on the structure-based protein function prediction. The aim was to provide a recent and comprehensive review of protein structure related topics: function aspects, structural classification, databases, tools and methods.
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