Subject: release of PROSPECT 2

From: Dong Xu <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:42:28 -0400

We are pleased to announce the release of the first public beta version
of PROSPECT 2. PROSPECT is a threading-based protein structure prediction
system. Compared with PROSPECT 1, PROSPECT 2 substantially
improves the accuracy, speed, flexibility, and ease of use, with a suite
of new features:
   * Improved threading accuracy
   * Faster computing speed with less memory requirement
   * Updated template database from the PDB as of May, 2002
   * A domain template library using SCOP
   * Template generation from a PDB file
   * A new energy function for threading with Psi-Blast profiles
   * Built-in secondary structure prediction
   * Statistical assessment of threading result using SVM
   * A Perl/Tk interface to run PROSPECT and browse the threading outputs.

You can read about the improvements and see documentation of the new
PROSPECT at http://compbio.ornl.gov/structure/prospect2/ . PROSPECT
is free of charge to academic users. Please print the academic licensing
agreement at the Web site and fax it to us. We will send you the
information for download.

We've also started the PROSPECT mailing list, [email-masked],
in order to join, send an email to [email-masked],
with the body:

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