title: VISTAL--a new 2D visualization tool of protein 3D structural alignments.
abstract: We offer a tool, denoted VISTAL, for two-dimensional visualization of protein structural alignments. VISTAL describes aligned structures as a series of matched secondary structure elements, colored according to the three-dimensional distance of their Calpha atoms.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  VISTAL can be downloaded from http://trantor.bioc.columbia.edu/~kolodny/software.html.
authors.affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, 1130 St Nicholas Avenue, Room 815, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kolodny
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Honig
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins