This old version of Proteopedia is provided for student assignments while the new version is undergoing repairs. Content and edits done in this old version of Proteopedia after March 1, 2026 will eventually be lost when it is retired in about June of 2026.
Apply for new accounts at the new Proteopedia. Your logins will work in both the old and new versions.
Practical Guide to Homology Modeling
From Proteopedia
Terminology
- Query sequence: The amino acid sequence for which a 3D model is wanted. More commonly called the target sequence, but talking about target vs. template gets confusing.
- Template: An empirically determined 3D protein structure with significant sequence similarity to the query.
- Structure will be used in this article to mean three-dimensional structure.
