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FlexOracle (FO)<br />

The FlexOracle algorithm has the best predictive ability by several measures. It had the<br />

highest sensitivity and lowest p-value (Table 4.3). It had the most successes under the<br />

loose criterion (Table 4.4). Results for individual proteins (supplementary Table 4.5)<br />

show that FO failed for Calmodulin, Troponin C, and Elastase of Pseudomonas<br />

Aeruginosa, suggesting the method cannot deal well with proteins that depend on bound<br />

metals for stability and motion. It also fared poorly for the two proteins with 3 hinge<br />

points, as would be expected for a predictor intrinsically limited to two hinge points<br />

(supplementary Table 4.5).<br />

hNMb, hNMd<br />

hNMb and hNMd are complemented by FO, as can be seen by several cases for which<br />

FO fails but hNMb and/or hNMd succeed (Figure 4.3), as was the case for five proteins:<br />

the (open) metal-bound form of calmodulin, bacteriophage T4 lysozyme (closed), cAMP<br />

dependent protein kinase (closed), elastase of pseudomonas aeruginosa (open), and<br />

inorganic pyrophosphatase (closed).<br />

The hNMd method has a strong advantage in that unlike FO and hNMb, it is not<br />

intrinsically limited by the number of strands in the hinge. In particular, we note that FO<br />

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