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We present a method (ENERGI) for extracting energy-like quantities from a data base of protein structures. In this paper, we use the method to generate pairwise additive amino acid "energy" scores. These scores are obtained by iteration until they correctly discriminate a set of known protein folds from decoy conformations. The method succeeds in lattice model tests and in the gapless threading problem as defined by Maiorov and Crippen Maiorov, V. N. & Crippen, G. M. (1992) J. Mol. Biol. 227, 876-888. A more challenging test of threading a larger set of test proteins derived from the representative set of Hobohm and Sander Hobohm, U. & Sander, C. (1994) Protein Sci. 3, 522-524 is used as a "workbench" for exploring how the ENERGI scores depend on their parameter sets.
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