title: BSDD: Biomolecules Segment Display Device--a web-based interactive display tool.
abstract: An interactive web-based display tool, Biomolecules Segment Display Device (BSDD), has been developed to search for and visualize a user-defined motif or fragment among the protein structures available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). In addition, the tool works for the structures available in a selected sub-set of non-homologous protein structures (25% and 90% sequence identity). The graphics package RASMOL has been incorporated as an interface to visualize the three-dimensional structure of the user-defined motif. In addition, the software can be used to extract the atomic coordinates of the required fragment and save them to the client system. The atomic coordinates are updated every week from the RCSB-PDB server, and hence the results produced by BSDD are up to date at any given time. The software BSDD is available over the World Wide Web at http://iris.physics.iisc.ernet.in/bsdd or http://144.16.71.2/bsdd.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Selvarani
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Shanthi
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Rajesh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saravanan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sekar
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D003196:Computer Graphics; D020407:Internet; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins