title: SymD webserver: a platform for detecting internally symmetric protein structures.
abstract: Internal symmetry of a protein structure is the pseudo-symmetry that a single protein chain sometimes exhibits. This is in contrast to the symmetry with which monomers are arranged in many multimeric protein complexes. SymD is a program that detects proteins with internal symmetry. It proved to be useful for analyzing protein structure, function and modeling. This web-based interactive tool was developed by implementing the SymD algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, SymD webserver is the first tool of its kind with which users can easily study the symmetry of the protein they are interested in by uploading the structure or retrieving it from databases. It uses the Galaxy platform to take advantage of its extensibility and displays the symmetry properties, the symmetry axis and the sequence alignment of the structures before and after the symmetry transformation via an interactive graphical visualization environment in any modern web browser. An Example Run video displays the workflow to help users navigate. SymD webserver is publicly available at http://symd.nci.nih.gov.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Chin-Hsien
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tai
authors.affiliation: Office of Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Rohit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Paul
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Dukka
authors.affiliation: Office of Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffery D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Shilling
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA BK.Lee@nih.gov.
authors.forename: Byungkook
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D020407:Internet; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software