articleBioinformaticsJun 1, 2024GOLD OA

RCSB protein Data Bank: exploring protein 3D similarities via comprehensive structural alignments

San Diego Supercomputer Center · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Tools for pairwise alignments between 3D structures of proteins are of fundamental importance for structural biology and bioinformatics, enabling visual exploration of evolutionary and functional relationships. However, the absence of a user-friendly, browser-based tool for creating alignments and visualizing them at both 1D sequence and 3D structural levels makes this process unnecessarily cumbersome. RESULTS: We introduce a novel pairwise structure alignment tool (rcsb.org/alignment) that seamlessly integrates into the RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) research-focused RCSB.org web portal. Our tool and its underlying application programming interface (alignment.rcsb.org) empowers users to align…

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Keywords
  • Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB)
  • Protein Data Bank
  • Computer science
  • Structural bioinformatics
  • Sequence alignment
  • Interface (matter)
  • Visualization
  • Structural alignment
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