Structure Motivator: a tool for exploring small three-dimensional elements in proteins.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protein structures incorporate characteristic three-dimensional elements defined by some or all of hydrogen bonding, dihedral angles and amino acid sequence. The software application, Structure Motivator, allows interactive exploration and analysis of such elements, and their resolution into sub-classes.

Results

Structure Motivator is a standalone application with an embedded relational database of proteins that, as a starting point, can furnish the user with a palette of unclassified small peptides or a choice of pre-classified structural motifs. Alternatively the application accepts files of data generated externally. After loading, the structural elements are displayed as two-dimensional plots of dihedral angles (φ/ψ, φ/χ1 or in combination) for each residue, w

SUBMITTER: Leader DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3507813 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature