Using support vector machines to improve elemental ion identification in macromolecular crystal structures

A method to automatically identify possible elemental ions in X-ray crystal structures has been extended to use support vector machine (SVM) classifiers trained on selected structures in the PDB, with significantly improved sensitivity over manually encoded heuristics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Morshed, Nader, Echols, Nathaniel, Adams, Paul D.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: International Union of Crystallography 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427199/