title: DNATCO: assignment of DNA conformers at dnatco.org.
abstract: The web service DNATCO (dnatco.org) classifies local conformations of DNA molecules beyond their traditional sorting to A, B and Z DNA forms. DNATCO provides an interface to robust algorithms assigning conformation classes called NTC: to dinucleotides extracted from DNA-containing structures uploaded in PDB format version 3.1 or above. The assigned dinucleotide NTC: classes are further grouped into DNA structural alphabet NTA: , to the best of our knowledge the first DNA structural alphabet. The results are presented at two levels: in the form of user friendly visualization and analysis of the assignment, and in the form of a downloadable, more detailed table for further analysis offline. The website is free and open to all users and there is no login requirement.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology CAS, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 252 50 Vestec, Prague West, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jiří
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Černý
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology CAS, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 252 50 Vestec, Prague West, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Paulína
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Božíková
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology CAS, BIOCEV, Průmyslová 595, 252 50 Vestec, Prague West, Czech Republic bohdan.schneider@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Bohdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schneider
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D004247:DNA