Structural bioinformatics

Structural bioinformatics refers to the branch of bioinformatics which is related to the analysis and prediction of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules such as proteins. The term structural has the same meaning as in structural biology, and structural bioinformatics can be seen as computational structural biology.

Books

 * Bourne, Weissig (2003) Structural Bioinformatics, Wiley ISBN 0-471-20199-5

Hallmark publications

 * Richardson, J.S. (1981) "The anatomy and taxonomy of protein structure". Adv. Protein Chem., 34, 167-339.
 * G.N. Ramachandran, C. Ramakrishnan, and V. Sasisekharan. "Stereochemistry of polypeptide chain configurations". J. Mol. Biol., 7:95-9, 1963.
 * G.N. Ramachandran and V. Sasisekharan. "Conformation of polypeptides and proteins". Adv. Protein Chem., 23:283-438, 1968.

Databases

 * MMDB
 * SCOP

Software

 * STING
 * PyMOL viewer
 * VMD viewer
 * MolMol viewer
 * SPDBV DeepView viewer
 * STRIDE
 * PROCHECK, a web service
 * iMolTalk, a web service
 * Jmol, a molecular viewer Java applet with rasmol-like scripting capabilities and Javascript interaction
 * PROPKA, rapid prediction of protein pKa values based on empirical structure/function relationships
 * CARA - Computer Aided Resonance Assignment
 * StarBiochem, a java protein viewer, features direct search of protein databank

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