what do you mean by segment pairs

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[a4appy23]

I was trying to understand ..what does a 13 residue polypeptide segment mean_-..and I would also like to know what is a segment pair. I have googled but I dont understand it..if someone can explain it would be great.. if I have a list of residues and ids segment id etc printed from a mant pdb files..for example if I should separate a. 6 residue poypeptide segment how do I do it...

[Ram]

An amino acid is often times called a residue, so a n-residue polypeptide segment translates to n-amino acid polypeptide chain. It is pretty clear, I'm not sure what's confusing you. What did the Google search reveal?

[Joe]

A 13 residue polypeptide is a short sequence of amino acids. This might be part of a larger protein, or could just be a peptide by itself.

A residue is another name for a single amino acid within a protein or peptide.

That's all I can say about your question at the moment because it lacks content. I have no idea what a segment pair means, nor what context this is meant to be in.

Please clarify your question, especially how it relates to bioinformatics (just tagging bioinformatics doesn't make it a bioinformatics question), else we may close it.