The present invention is to provide a system for measuring the similarity
between protein profile matrices which is suitably used for predicting a
protein three-dimensional structure. The present invention provides a
system for measuring the similarity between protein profile matrices,
wherein said profile matrix consists of a group of profile columns
containing occurrence probabilities every amino acid type at a respective
locations of amino acid residues in a multiple alignment in which amino
acid sequences in a plurality of related proteins are aligned in
multiple, said system for measuring the similarity comprises (a) means
for preparing two profile matrices of a query profile matrix and a
subject profile matrix; (b) means for calculating correlation
coefficients between the respective profile columns in said query profile
matrix and the respective profile columns in said subject profile matrix
with respect to full or partial combinations of both the respective
profile columns; and (c) means for forming a score matrix consisting of
said correlation coefficients.