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Overview

Liisa Holm is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and specializes in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Materials Chemistry, Ecology, and Aging. Their research interests cover a range of topics including Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Enzyme Structure and Function, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, as well as Gene Expression and Cancer Classification.

Their frequently published venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Protein Science, Applied Computing and Intelligence, Nucleic Acids Research, and Methods in Molecular Biology. Frequent collaborators include Petri Törönen, Aleksi Laiho, Ilya Plyusnin, Jurgita Paukštytė, and Rosa María López Cabezas.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Dali server: structural unification of protein families, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Using Dali for Protein Structure Comparison, 2020, Methods in Molecular Biology
  • DALI shines a light on remote homologs: One hundred discoveries, 2022, Protein Science

These works have contributed to understanding protein structures and their functional predictions, often integrating computational methods for structural comparison and analysis.

Best Publications

  • The Pfam protein families database

    Marco Punta;Penny C. Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Jaina Mistry

  • Pfam: the protein families database.

    Robert D. Finn;Alex Bateman;Jody Clements;Penelope Coggill

  • Protein structure comparison by alignment of distance matrices

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • Dali server: conservation mapping in 3D

    Liisa Holm;Päivi Rosenström

  • Mapping the Protein Universe

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • Dali: a network tool for protein structure comparison

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction

    Predrag Radivojac;Wyatt T Clark;Tal Ronnen Oron;Alexandra M Schnoes

  • Searching protein structure databases with DaliLite v.3

    L. Holm;S. Kääriäinen;P. Rosenström;A. Schenkel

  • DaliLite workbench for protein structure comparison

    Liisa Holm;Jong Park

  • The Immunoglobulin Fold: Structural Classification, Sequence Patterns and Common Core

    P. Bork;L. Holm;C. Sander

  • Dali server update

    Liisa Holm;Laura M. Laakso

  • Touring protein fold space with Dali/FSSP

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • An evolutionary treasure: unification of a broad set of amidohydrolases related to urease.

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • DALI and the persistence of protein shape.

    Liisa Holm

  • Dali/FSSP classification of three-dimensional protein folds

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • Using Dali for Protein Structure Comparison

    Liisa Holm

  • The FSSP database of structurally aligned protein fold families.

    L Holm;C Sander

  • Advances and pitfalls of protein structural alignment

    Hitomi Hasegawa;Liisa Holm

  • Database algorithm for generating protein backbone and side-chain co-ordinates from a C alpha trace application to model building and detection of co-ordinate errors.

    Liisa Holm;Chris Sander

  • An evolutionary treasure: Unification of a broad set of amidohydrolases related to urease

    L. Holm;C. Sander;Thomas Traut

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Sander
Chris Sander Harvard University
Petri Auvinen
Petri Auvinen University of Helsinki
Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz University College London
Tapio Salakoski
Tapio Salakoski University of Turku
David T. Jones
David T. Jones University College London
Daisuke Kihara
Daisuke Kihara Purdue University West Lafayette
Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost Technical University of Munich
Julian Gough
Julian Gough University of Bristol
Michal Linial
Michal Linial Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Steven E. Brenner
Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley

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