title: SCit: web tools for protein side chain conformation analysis.
abstract: SCit is a web server providing services for protein side chain conformation analysis and side chain positioning. Specific services use the dependence of the side chain conformations on the local backbone conformation, which is described using a structural alphabet that describes the conformation of fragments of four-residue length in a limited library of structural prototypes. Based on this concept, SCit uses sets of rotameric conformations dependent on the local backbone conformation of each protein for side chain positioning and the identification of side chains with unlikely conformations. The SCit web server is accessible at http://bioserv.rpbs.jussieu.fr/SCit.
authors.affiliation: Equipe de Bioinformatique Génomique et Moléculaire, INSERM E346, Université Paris 7, case 7113, 2, place Jussieu, 75251 Paris cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gautier
authors.forename: A-C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Camproux
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tufféry
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D020407:Internet; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D011506:Proteins