TMQuery: a database of precomputed template modeling scores for assessment of protein structural similarity

Abstract

Abstract Summary Comparisons of protein structures are critical for developing novel protein designs, annotating protein functions and predicting protein structure. The template modeling score (TM-score) is a widely used but computationally expensive measure of protein similarity that is applicable to a wide variety of structural biology problems. We introduce TMQuery—a continuously updated database containing over eight billion pre-computed TM-score values for every pair of proteins in the Protein Data Bank, allowing researchers to quickly query and download TM-scores via a web interface. Availability and implementation Publicly available at https://tmquery.gsk.com/.