Figure 3.

The two zones of sequence alignment identity that indicate the likelihood of adopting similar structures. Two aligned sequences are highly likely to have similar folds if their length and percentage sequence identity fall in the region above the threshold (black line). HOPE will build a homology model when the identity between the template and submitted sequence falls in this zone. In case the sequence identity is less than 5% above this threshold (grey line) HOPE will build a model but will also warn that the model is based on a template with low identity. The region below the threshold (indicated with a cross) indicates the zone where inference of structural similarity cannot be made, thus making it difficult to determine if model building will be possible. (Figure free after Sander and Schneider [25]).