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separated blocks in the list. However, starting with a particular protein of a given
family (1QMF), the SuMo program was able to catch proteins that all share the
capability to bind betalactam molecules. The SuMo approach is a tentative towards
automatic functional annotations of protein of unkown functions based solely on
their 3D structures. In the future, efforts will be made to go towards protein-protein
interactions capabilities as SuMo can be seen as the foundation of the vocabulary
used in a grammar still to be discovered about the rules that govern the molecular
language of interaction.
Acknowledgements Thanks are due to Martin Jambon as the main author of the original SuMo
program written in OCAML.
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