StructureMan
StructureMan facilitates manipulation and electrostatic analysis of large biomolecular structures to investigate large-scale biomolecular interactions.
Key Features:
- Structure manipulation: Performs comprehensive operations to manipulate and analyze large biomolecular structures.
- Integration with electrostatic calculation programs: Integrates with DelPhi and DelPhiForce to perform electrostatic calculations and reveal detailed electrostatic features within large biological systems.
- Applications in specific biological systems: Applied to study viral capsids and molecular motor-microtubule complexes to uncover binding mechanisms.
- Versatility across large biological systems: Applicable to diverse large-scale biological systems that are challenging for conventional all-atom simulations.
Scientific Applications:
- Large-scale interaction analysis: Provides an alternative approach to study biomolecular interactions in systems too large or complex for traditional all-atom models.
- Viral capsid binding studies: Enables investigation of binding mechanisms in viral capsids through structural manipulation and electrostatic analysis.
- Molecular motor-microtubule binding studies: Enables analysis of binding mechanisms in molecular motor-microtubule complexes using structure manipulation and DelPhi/DelPhiForce electrostatics.
Methodology:
Uses comprehensive structure-manipulation operations combined with electrostatic calculations from DelPhi and DelPhiForce.
Topics
Details
- Tool Type:
- command-line tool, desktop application, library
- Programming Languages:
- Delphi
- Added:
- 3/19/2021
- Last Updated:
- 4/10/2021
Operations
Publications
Xian Y, Xie Y, Silva SM, Karki CB, Qiu W, Li L. StructureMan: A Structure Manipulation Tool to Study Large Scale Biomolecular Interactions. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 2021;7. doi:10.3389/fmolb.2020.627087. PMID:33505991. PMCID:PMC7831659.