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Protein Plots Input FormGenerates hydropathy plots...
How should I interpret the graphs? Kyte & Doolittle Hydropathy The Window Position values shown on the x-axis of the graph reflect the average hydropathy of the entire window, with the corresponding amino acid as the middle element of that window. For example, if the window size were 19, the score at window position 10 would be the average hydropathy of the 19 amino acids from position 1 to position 19 in the input sequence. Notice that the horizontal axis is scaled to include only those amino acids for which a windowed hydropathy score is computed. First, each amino acid is given a hydrophobicity score between -4.5 and 4.5. A score of 4.5 is the most hydrophobic and a score of -4.5 is the most hydrophilic. Click here to see each amino acid's score. Then a window size is set. A window size is the number of amino acids whose hydrophobicity scores will be averaged and assigned to the middle amino acid in the window. The default window size is 9 amino acids. The computer program starts with the first window of amino acids and calculates the average of all the hydrophobicity scores in that window. Then the computer program moves down one amino acid and calculates the average of all the hydrophobicity scores in the second window. This pattern continues to the end of the protein, computing the average score for each window and assigning it to the middle amino acid in the window. The averages are then plotted on a graph. The y axis represents the hydrophobicity scores and the x axis represents the position in the protein sequence. Hopp & Woods Antigenic/Hydrophilic Reference:
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