Development of a Prototype System for Archiving Integrative/Hybrid Structure Models of Biological Macromolecules.

ABSTRACT: Essential processes in biology are carried out by large macromolecular assemblies, whose structures are often difficult to determine by traditional methods. Increasingly, researchers combine measured data and computed information from several complementary methods to obtain "hybrid" or "integrative" structural models of macromolecules and their assemblies. These integrative/hybrid (I/H) models are not archived in the PDB because of the absence of standard data representations and processing mechanisms. Here we present the development of data standards and a prototype system for archiving I/H models. The data standards provide the definitions required for representing I/H models that span multiple spatiotemporal scales and conformational states, as well as spatial restraints derived from di

SUBMITTER: Vallat B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990459 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature