pdbFun: mass selection and fast comparison of annotated PDB residues.
pdbFun (http://pdbfun.uniroma2.it) is a web server for structural and functional analysis of proteins at the residue level. pdbFun gives fast access to the whole Protein Data Bank (PDB) organized as a database of annotated residues. The available data (features) range from solvent exposure to ligand binding ability, location in a protein cavity, secondary structure, residue type, sequence functional pattern, protein domain and catalytic activity. Users can select any residue subset (even including any number of PDB structures) by combining the available features. Selections can be used as probe and target in multiple structure comparison searches. For example a search could involve, as a query, all solvent-exposed, hydrophylic residues that are not in alpha-helices and are involved in nucleotide binding. Possible examples of targets are represented by another selection, a single structure or a dataset composed of many structures. The output is a list of aligned structural matches offered in tabular and also graphical format.
Ausiello
Gabriele
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Centre for Molecular Bioinformatics, Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy. gabriele@cbm.bio.uniroma2.it
Zanzoni
Andreas
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Peluso
Daniele
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Via
Allegra
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Helmer-Citterich
Manuela
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D000465:Algorithms; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D013997:Time Factors
D000596:Amino Acids; D011506:Proteins