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July 31, 2020Protein ScienceOpen Access

The Bio3D packages for structural bioinformatics

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BGBarry J. GrantUniversity of California, San DiegoLSLars SkjærvenTV 2 (Norway)XYXin‐Qiu YaoUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha

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Methodological review reveals modular Bio3D structural bioinformatics tools in R, highlighting automated identification of functional protein residues via ensemble difference distance matrix analysis.

Key Points

  • To review recent updates to the Bio3D structural bioinformatics suite and introduce an ensemble difference distance matrix analysis method for comparing large sets of biomolecular structures.
  • Modularized the core Bio3D architecture into distinct open-source R packages focused on sequence, structure, and dynamic analysis.
  • Developed the ensemble difference distance matrix (eDDM) workflow to calculate and compare atomic distance matrices across homologous experimental and simulation-derived structures.
  • Implemented automated workflows linking distance matrix computations with multivariate analyses and sequence-structure-function tools.
  • The partitioned Bio3D package ecosystem provides automated and reproducible toolsets for normal mode analysis, correlation network modeling, and database mining.
  • The eDDM approach systematically uncovers residue-level determinants of specific functional states across large homologous protein families.
  • Bio3D-eddm seamlessly integrates both experimental structures and theoretical molecular simulations within a standardized, platform-independent R framework.

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Grant et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d97a56387cf7069868438chttps://doi.org/10.1002/pro.3923
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