Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on June 15, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(15):1963-1965; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp335
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InterMap3D: predicting and visualizing co-evolving protein residues


Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Building 208, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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Summary: InterMap3D predicts co-evolving protein residues and plots them on the 3D protein structure. Starting with a single protein sequence, InterMap3D automatically finds a set of homologous sequences, generates an alignment and fetches the most similar 3D structure from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It can also accept a user-generated alignment. Based on the alignment, co-evolving residues are then predicted using three different methods: Row and Column Weighing of Mutual Information, Mutual Information/Entropy and Dependency. Finally, InterMap3D generates high-quality images of the protein with the predicted co-evolving residues highlighted.
Availability: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/InterMap3D/
Contact: gorm{at}cbs.dtu.dk
These authors contributed equally.
Associate Editor: Thomas Lengauer
Received on January 31, 2009; revised on April 29, 2009; accepted on May 26, 2009