Comparison of protein secondary structures based on backbone dihedral angles

In this article, we propose a relatively similar measure to compare protein secondary structures. We first transform a protein secondary structure into a special sequence representation (angle sequence) based on a partition of the backbone φ , ψ -space. Then, pairwise sequence distance is evaluated on the basis of a symbolic sequence complexity. To illustrate our approach, we construct the similarity tree of 24 proteins from PDB.