JabberDock tackles the problem of protein-protein docking while accommodating for rearrangements upon binding including side chain reorientations and backbone flexibility.
ModeRNA is a program for comparative modeling of RNA 3D structures. It requires a pairwise sequence alignment and a structural template to generate a 3D structural model of the target RNA sequence via either a fully automated or script-based approaches. ModeRNA is capable of handling 115 different nucleotide modifications and bridging gaps using fragments derived from an extensive fragment library.
FiltRest3D is a software for scoring and ranking of models according to their agreement with user-defined restraints.Automatic methods for protein structure prediction (fold-recognition, de novo folding, and docking programs) produce large sets of alternative models. These large model sets often include many native-like structures, which are scored as high as false positives. Such native-like models can be more easily identified based on data from experimental analyses used as structural restraints (e.g. identification of nearby residues by crosslinking, chemical modification, site-directed mutagenesis, deuterium exchange coupled with mass spectrometry etc.)
Raster3D is a set of tools for generating high quality raster images of proteins or other molecules. The core program renders spheres, triangles, cylinders, and quadric surfaces with specular highlighting, Phong shading, and shadowing. It uses an efficient software Z-buffer algorithm which is independent of any graphics hardware. Ancillary programs process atomic coordinates from PDB files into rendering descriptions for pictures composed of ribbons, space-filling atoms, bonds, ball+stick, etc. Raster3D can also be used to render pictures composed in other programs such as Molscript in glorious 3D with highlights, shadowing, etc. Output is to pixel image files with 24 bits of color information per pixel.
LIGPLOT is a program which plots schematic diagrams of protein-ligand interactions.
LigPlot+ is a graphical front-end to the LIGPLOT and DIMPLOT programs. The plots generated by these programs can be interactively edited on screen, superposed and printed.
Cn3D is a helper application for your web browser that allows you to view 3-dimensional structures from NCBI’s Entrez retrieval service. Cn3D simultaneously displays structure, sequence, and alignment, and now has powerful annotation and alignment editing features.
What sets Cn3D apart from other software is its ability to correlate structure and sequence information: for example, a scientist can quickly find the residues in a crystal structure that correspond to known disease mutations, or conserved active site residues from a family of sequence homologs. Cn3D displays structure-structure alignments along with their structure-based sequence alignments, to emphasize what regions of a group of related proteins are most conserved in structure and sequence.
Cn3D reads only data files from the MMDB database, not PDB formatted records.
Below is a complete list (with links into Entrez) of all literature cited in the preparation of this tutorial.
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