Biobox
Biobox provides a Python library for loading, programmatically manipulating, and analyzing atomistic and pseudoatomistic biomolecular structures to support biomolecular modeling and structural analyses.
Key Features:
- Python-based implementation: Implements functionality in Python to enable programmatic access and scripting for biomolecular data.
- Comprehensive API: Exposes an API to load, manipulate, and analyze atomistic and pseudoatomistic structures.
- Integration of software libraries: Integrates diverse software libraries into a unified computational framework.
- Standardized methods and reimplementation of common tasks: Reimplements common biomolecular modeling tasks to provide standardized computational methods.
Scientific Applications:
- Biomolecular modeling: Supports workflows and analyses in biomolecular modeling studies.
- Structure manipulation and editing: Enables programmatic modification and handling of molecular structures.
- Analysis of atomic interactions: Facilitates calculation and analysis of atomic-level interactions within structures.
- Molecular dynamics preparation and analysis: Supports preparation and analysis steps related to molecular dynamics simulations.
Methodology:
Implemented in Python by integrating multiple software libraries and reimplementing common tasks, exposing a programmatic API to load, manipulate, and analyze atomistic and pseudoatomistic structures.
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Details
- License:
- GPL-3.0
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Programming Languages:
- Python
- Added:
- 3/28/2022
- Last Updated:
- 3/28/2022
Operations
Publications
Rudden LSP, Musson SC, Benesch JLP, Degiacomi MT. Biobox: a toolbox for biomolecular modelling. Bioinformatics. 2021;38(4):1149-1151. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab785. PMID:34791029. PMCID:PMC8796382.
PMID: 34791029
PMCID: PMC8796382
Funding: - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council fellowship: EP/P016499/1
- Impact Accelerator funds from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: EP/K503769/1
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Issue tracker
https://github.com/degiacom/biobox/issues