Editing PatternQuery:Introduction (section)

=How it can help me?=
[[File:PatternQuery-Intro1.png | thumb | 500px | left| ''P. aeruginosa '' PA-IIL Lectin (1gzt) sugar binding site identified with '''PatternQuery''']]

'''PatternQuery''' is tailored to describe biomacromolecular structural [[PatternQuery:Terminology#Pattern | patterns]] based on the nature and the relationship between [[PatternQuery:Terminology#Atom | atoms]], [[PatternQuery:Terminology#Residue | residues]], and other structural elements, both at the sequence and 3D level. This unique design allows the user to simultaneously operate and combine several levels of resolution to identify patterns of biomacromolecular complexes including ligands, water molecules, and ions. Such knowledge has a variety of imminent applications, for example: in a structural and functional assignment of uncharacterized or newly determined proteins, but also represents a key point in rational design and engineering of novel functional sites and comparative protein structural analyses.
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