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 Protein Homology/analogY Recognition Engine V 2.0


 

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Welcome to the Phyre2 Help page. Phyre2 is a major update to the original Phyre server. A range of new features have been included, accuracy has been substantially improved and the interface has been redesigned to be more intuitive and powerful.

As with Phyre, the new system is designed around the idea that you have a protein sequence/gene and want to predict its three-dimensional (3D) structure. Whereas Phyre used a profile-profile alignment algorithm, Phyre2 uses the alignment of hidden Markov models via HHsearch1 to significantly improve accuracy of alignment and detection rate.

Phyre2 also incorporates a new ab initio folding simulation called Poing2 to model regions of your proteins with no detectable homology to known structures. Poing is also used to combine multiple templates. Distance constraints from individual models are treated as linear elastic springs. Poing then synthesises your entire protein in the presence of these springs and at the same time models unconstrained regions using its physics simulation.

If you are completely new to the ideas of protein structure prediction the video below will give you a very brief overview of the general technique. More videos will be available soon from the "Video Tutorials" link above.




Full Lecture

A full 1hr45m lecture by Lawrence Kelley on protein structure prediction and how Phyre works in more detail is available:
EBI Lecture 2018

References
1. Söding J. (2005) Protein homology detection by HMM-HMM comparison. Bioinformatics 21, 951-960. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti125.
2. Protein Folding Requires Crowd Control in a Simulated Cell. Jefferys BR, Kelley LA and Sternberg MJE Journal of Molecular Biology (2010) Volume 397, Issue 5, 16 April 2010, Pages 1329-1338.

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Position available

Job Opportunity for Experienced Bioinformatics Software Developer (Phyre and Missense3D) See:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CXG066/bioinformatics-software-developer-in-protein-structure-and-genetic-variant-modelling


Other Resources

Missense3D-DB: Database of missense variants or analyse the structural impact of missense variants in your own protein with Missense3D

PhyreRisk: A dynamic database to view human sequences and structures and map genetic variants

GWYRE: contains modeled and experimentally determined structures of human proteins and protein complexes, annotated by phenotypic effects of genetic mutations.

Cambridge 2019 Workshop | Older Workshops | Phyre2 paper


Covid-19 news

Half of the human population has a defective TMPRSS2 protein that significantly reduces the chance of developing severe COVID-19: see David et al. "A common TMPRSS2 variant has a protective effect against severe COVID-19" Curr Res Transl Med. 2022 May;70(2):103333, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retram.2022.103333



Phyre is now FREE for commercial users!

All images and data generated by Phyre2 are free to use in any publication with acknowledgement

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Please cite: The Phyre2 web portal for protein modeling, prediction and analysis
Kelley LA et al. Nature Protocols 10, 845-858 (2015) [paper] [Citation link]
 
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