<p><em>Answer from @user438383, @matteo-ferla and @m, converted from comments [anyone, feel free to edit this answer to improve it]:</em></p>
<p>According to the intro it means 'pseudocenter'. All measurements are relative to an assigned point because a protein doesn't have a 'centre' they assigned it as a pseudocentre.</p>
<p>Note that PC normally means principal component, but that does not seem to be the case here.</p>

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<p>What does it mean by &quot;PC&quot; in this article?</p>
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<li><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24995959/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a fast and efficient Cα-based method for accurately assigning protein secondary structure elements</a></li>
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What does it mean by "PC" in this article?
# What does it mean by "PC" in this article?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-01-17)

What does it mean by "PC" in this article?

* [a fast and efficient Cα-based method for accurately assigning protein secondary structure elements](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24995959/)

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**Tags:** protein-structure, algorithms

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### Answer by username_1 on 2022-01-23. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

*Answer from @user438383, @matteo-ferla and @m, converted from comments [anyone, feel free to edit this answer to improve it]:*

According to the intro it means 'pseudocenter'. All measurements are relative to an assigned point because a protein doesn't have a 'centre' they assigned it as a pseudocentre.

Note that PC normally means principal component, but that does not seem to be the case here.


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