Illustration of the four levels of protein structure, including primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structure

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A 3D rendering showing a drug molecule bound to a protein, symbolic of structure-based protein design.

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A 3D rendering showing a drug molecule bound to a protein, with the protein depicted as a cartoon model and the drug as a ball-and-stick model

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A flowchart illustrating the overall approach to computational protein structure prediction, starting with a protein sequence and progressing through multiple sequence alignment, database searching, secondary structure prediction, protein threading, homology modeling, and  Ab initio modeling to generate a 3D protein model, with steps varying based on the presence of homologs in the PDB and prediction results.

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The cryo-EM structure of a protein is depicted in ribbon and surface representations, with different colors highlighting individual domains within the structures.

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A cartoon representation of a protein binding to a small molecule at the protein’s binding site 

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