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*'''Query sequence''': The amino acid sequence for which a 3D model is wanted. More commonly called the ''target'' sequence, but talking about target vs. template gets confusing.
*'''Query sequence''': The amino acid sequence for which a 3D model is wanted. More commonly called the ''target'' sequence, but talking about target vs. template gets confusing.
*'''Template''': An empirically determined 3D protein structure with significant sequence similarity to the query.
*'''Template''': An empirically determined 3D protein structure with significant sequence similarity to the query.
*'''"Structure"''' will be used in this article to mean three-dimensional structure.
*'''"Structure"''' will be used in this article to mean three-dimensional protein molecular structure.


== What Is A Homology Model? ==
== What Is A Homology Model? ==