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. 2013 Jul 24;8(7):e69464. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069464

Table 1. Template modeling scores [TM] and root mean square deviation scores (RMSD) for the comparison of structural similarities between scFvs.

TscFv BscFv
S9/P2 BDC2.5 D9 D9mut
D9 [0.94133]; (1.22) [0.83072]; (2.67) [1]; (0) [0.60388]; (1.96)
S9/P2 [1]; (0) [0.85166]; (2.77)

The higher the template modeling score [TM] and the lower the root mean square deviation score (RMSD) the more closely two structures are related. Comparison of two identical structures (D9 and S9/P2 each with itself) yields 1 for the TM score and 0 for the RMSD score. The TM score weighting algorithm is less sensitive to distant than to close matches and is therefore a more sensitive measure for structural similarity than the RMSD score [46].