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. 2012 Feb 29;7(2):e32171. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032171

Table 3. Glossary of terms and symbols.

Term or Symbol Meaning
NSM Near a small molecule in the crystal structure
NSM-valid Subset of NSM interactions annotated as valid in the MOAD database [26], [27]
NSM-invalid Subset of NSM interactions annotated as invalid in the MOAD database [26], [27]
CSA catalytic residue from the Catalytic Site Atlas [28] with evidence type LIT
Text Residue physically-verified residue mentioned in abstract of primary PDB reference
Transfer MSA Protein-level or family-level multiple sequence alignment used for transferring annotations between protein domains
Conservation MSA Subset of family-level transfer MSAs involving ten or more distinct proteins, used to calculate residue conservation scores
S Comprehensive set of 106,411 protein domains
Sx Subset of S consisting of 98,934 domains on which structure-based prediction was performed
C Corpus of 17,595 MEDLINE abstracts representing primary references for PDB entries
E1 Evaluation corpus of 813 abstracts annotated with mutation mentions, compiled for MutationFinder
E1_dev Development subset of E1, consisting of 305 abstracts
E1_test Test subset of E1, consisting of 508 abstracts
E2 Evaluation corpus of 100 abstracts annotated with both amino acid residues and mutation mentions, compiled by Nagel et al. [33]
E3 Evaluation corpus of 50 full text articles containing mentions of residues and mutations, compiled by the authors for this study