Central to the function of all proteins is their ability to adopt stably or sometimes transiently structures that allow for interaction with other molecules an understanding of the structure of a protein can therefore lead us to a much improved picture of its molecular function this realisation has been a prime motivation of recent structural genomics projects involving large scale . This book is about protein structural bioinformatics and how it can help understand and predict protein function it covers structure based methods that can assign and explain protein function based on overall folds characteristics of protein surfaces occurrence of small 3d motifs protein protein interactions and on dynamic properties. This book is about protein structural bioinformatics and how it can help understand and predict protein function it covers structure based methods that can assign and explain protein function based on overall folds characteristics of protein surfaces occurrence of small 3d motifs protein protein interactions and on dynamic properties such methods help extract maximum value from new . Central to the function of all proteins is their ability to adopt stably or sometimes transiently structures that allow for interaction with other molecules an understanding of the structure of a protein can therefore lead us to a much improved picture of its molecular function this realisation has been a prime motivation of recent structural genomics projects involving large scale . read from protein structure to function with bioinformatics author daniel john rigden nov 2010 uploaded by sidney sheldon central to the function of all proteins is their ability to adopt stably or sometimes transiently structures that allow for interaction with other molecules an understanding of the structure of a protein can