Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 1850002(2018)

PDBlocal: A web-based tool for local inspection of biological macromolecular 3D structures

Pan Wang1,2, Guangxiao Yang1, and Guangyuan He1、*
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  • 1The Genetic Engineering International Cooperation Base of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, The Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Chinese Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
  • 2College of Electronics and Information Engineering, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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    Functional research on biological macromolecules must focus on specific local regions. PDBlocal is a web-based tool developed to overcome the limitations of traditional molecular visualization tools for three-dimensional (3D) inspection of local regions. PDBlocal provides an intuitive and easy-tomanipulate web page interface and some new useful functions. It can keep local regions flashing, display sequence text that is dynamically consistent with the 3D structure in local appearance under multiple local manipulations, use two scenes to help users inspect the same local region with different statuses, list all historical manipulation statuses with a tree structure, allow users to annotate regions of interest, and save all historical statuses and other data to a web server for future research. PDBlocal has met expectations and shown satisfactory performance for both expert and novice users. This tool is available at http://labsystem.scuec.edu.cn/pdblocal/.

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    Pan Wang, Guangxiao Yang, Guangyuan He. PDBlocal: A web-based tool for local inspection of biological macromolecular 3D structures[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2018, 11(2): 1850002

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 6, 2017

    Accepted: Jul. 20, 2017

    Published Online: Sep. 18, 2018

    The Author Email: He Guangyuan (hegy@hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545818500025

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