HHalign-Kbest is useful to automatically obtain optimized alignments and models in case of low sequence identity (<35%) between a query and a template protein. It can generate k suboptimal (e.g. top-k scoring) alignments rather than only the optimal one which may contain small to large errors.
HHalign.KBest: exploring sub-optimal alignments for remote homology comparative modeling
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iSuperpose performs the 3D superposition of protein structures by best superimposing the alpha-carbons (or the backbone) of the proteins given a alignment specifying the correspondence between the structures. If no alignment is provided, a structural alignment will be calculated using TMalign. One the alignement is identified, the superposition is achieved using a quaternion based procedure using a specific eigen value calculation implementation. See QBestFit.
XmMol is a desktop macromolecular visualization and modeling tool designed to be easy to use, configure and enhance. Its graphics are based on X11, and part of its user interface is based on Motif. Thus it provides a way of displaying structures on any X11 server. Its main features are:
XmMol: an X11 and motif program for macromolecular visualization and modeling.
J Mol Graph. 1995 Feb;13(1):67-72, 62.
As our understanding of the mechanisms underlying evolution becomes more accurate, and the amount of protein data increases, the investigation of more and more sophisticated hypotheses becomes tractable. Also, the analysis of particular features associated with particular families of proteins becomes our concern.
Simulated protein sequences can provide an expectation under a null hypothesis against which real data can be compared. Different programs have been designed for such simulations, mostly with the aim of allowing the test of generic features such as the efficiency of phylogeny reconstruction methods or evaluating competing phylogenetic hypotheses. To investigate hypotheses related to the evolution of particular protein families, it becomes necessary that simulations take into account as much information as possible that can be inferred from a particular phylogenetic reconstruction.
CS-PSeq-Gen is a program derived from PSeq-Gen, a program developed by Nick C. Grassly and Andrew Rambaut, designed to simulate the evolution of protein sequences along evolutionary trees. CS-PSeq-Gen modifications are related to the aim of simulating the evolution of protein sequences under the constraints of the information of a particular reconstructed phylogeny: the "root sequence" that initiates the simulation, or the rate heterogeneity among sites are specific on each particular protein family. CS-Pseq-Gen will allow simulations to take such information into account. As well, exploring the evolution of one protein family and testing hypotheses makes often it necessary to have some control on the variability of the parameters. CS-PSeq-Gen will allow some control on the simulated tree / branch lengths around an average value. Finally, a particular category of applications for such simulations is the search for the significant co-evolution of sites. CS-PSeq-Gen offers some facilities to generate sequences under such hypotheses, and propose a basic scheme for their detection, that can be easily adapted by programmers.
This program may be used and distributed freely but only as the original compressed archive file. The author is grateful for any comments, suggestions or bug reports.
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CS-PSeq-Gen: simulating the evolution of protein sequence under constraints.
Bioinformatics. 2002 Jul;18(7):1015-6.
| BCscore |
A score based on Binet-Cauchy kernel. Allows for the search of both similar and mirror conformations. Addresses two major issue of the widely used root mean square deviation (RMSD):
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| QBestFit | 3D superposition module, in C. Uses the quaternions. Very reliable. | Download |
The two libraries described here were built from an analysis of crystallographic protein structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Only proteins at least 30 amino acids long, having no chain breaks, obtained by X-ray diffraction with a resolution better than 2.5 Angstroms were retained. In date of november 2003, this resulted in a collection of 2926 protein chains presenting less than 30% sequence identity (489528 amino acids, not considering ALA, GLY and PRO). The libraries store the chi values, and the frequencies of occurrence of each conformation. Compared to our previous libraries, we use a different approach to determine rotameric values, since we use Gaussian filters, in a way similar to that described by Lovell et al., Proteins 2000 40:389-408.
| Backbone independent rotamer library | Library built not considering backbone conformation. | Download |
| Backbone dependent rotamer library | Result of an analysis of side chain conformations in the light of the conformation of the backbone of the 4 residue length peptidic fragment englobing it, caracterized by its structural alphabet (SA) state. | Download |
