2Struc: the secondary structure server

Bioinformatics. 2010 Oct 15;26(20):2624-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq480. Epub 2010 Aug 24.

Abstract

Summary: The defined secondary structure of proteins method is often considered the gold standard for assignment of secondary structure from three-dimensional coordinates. However, there are alternative methods. '2Struc: The Secondary Structure Server' has been created as a single point of access for eight different secondary structure assignment methods. It has been designed to enable comparisons between methods for analyzing the secondary structure content for a single protein. It also includes a second functionality, 'Compare-the-Protein' to enable comparisons of the secondary structure features from any one method to be made within a collection of nuclear magnetic resonance models, or between the crystal structures of two different proteins.

Availability: http://2struc.cryst.bbk.ac.uk

Contact: r.w.janes@qmul.ac.uk

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Hydrogen Bonding
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Protein Folding
  • Protein Structure, Secondary*
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Proteins / metabolism
  • Software*

Substances

  • Proteins