Abstract
SCWRL and MolIDE are software applications for prediction of protein structures. SCWRL is designed specifically for the task of prediction of side-chain conformations given a fixed backbone usually obtained from an experimental structure determined by X-ray crystallography or NMR. SCWRL is a command-line program that typically runs in a few seconds. MolIDE provides a graphical interface for basic comparative (homology) modeling using SCWRL and other programs. MolIDE takes an input target sequence and uses PSI-BLAST to identify and align templates for comparative modeling of the target. The sequence alignment to any template can be manually modified within a graphical window of the target–template alignment and visualization of the alignment on the template structure. MolIDE builds the model of the target structure on the basis of the template backbone, predicted side-chain conformations with SCWRL and a loop-modeling program for insertion–deletion regions with user-selected sequence segments. SCWRL and MolIDE can be obtained at http://dunbrack.fccc.edu/Software.php.
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This work was supported by NIH grants R01-HG02302 and R01-GM84453 (to R.L.D.) and P30-CA06927 to Fox Chase Cancer Center. We thank Mark Andrake and Radka Stoyanova for testing MolIDE 1.6.
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Wang, Q., Canutescu, A. & Dunbrack, R. SCWRL and MolIDE: computer programs for side-chain conformation prediction and homology modeling. Nat Protoc 3, 1832–1847 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2008.184
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