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Table 1 Fraction of multi-functional fold families in the SCOP database. About half of the protein domains belong to a multi-functional fold family, suggesting that the problem of ambiguous functional assignment is very common for experimental structures.

From: Automated functional classification of experimental and predicted protein structures

Category

Number of folds

Number of superfamilies

Number of families

Number of domains

Folds with multiple superfamilies

127

755

1,414

32,913

Folds with a single superfamily

1,006

1,006

1,700

37,946