Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on August 20, 2007
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm356
Con-Struct Map: a Comparative Contact Map Analysis Tool
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 3San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. 4Present address: Razavi-Newman Center for Bioinformatics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Philip E. Bourne, E-mail: pbourne{at}ucsd.edu
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Summary: Con-Struct Map is a graphical tool for the comparative study of protein structures. The tool detects potential conserved residue contacts shared by multiple protein structures by superimposing their contact maps according to a multiple structure alignment. In general, Con-Struct Map allows the study of structural changes resulting from, for example, sequence substitutions, or alternatively, the study of conserved components of a structure framework across structurally aligned proteins. Specific applications include the study of sequence-structure relationship in distantly related proteins and the comparisons of wild type and mutated proteins.
Availability: http://pdbrs3.sdsc.edu/ConStructMap/viewer_argument_generator/singleArguments
Contact: pbourne{at}ucsd.edu
Associate Editor: Prof. Alsonso Valencia
Received on May 11, 2007; revised on July 1, 2007; accepted on July 3, 2007
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