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ASBAAC: Automated Salt-Bridge and AromaticAromatic Calculator
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Authors |
Chittran Roy & Saumen Datta*
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Affiliation |
Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Division, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, 4 Raja SC Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata-700032, West Bengal, India;
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Article Type |
Software
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Date |
Received March 19, 2018; Revised April 5, 2018, Accepted April 5, 2018, Published April 30, 2018
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Abstract |
Biological systems are made of complex networks non-covalent interactions observed among protein-protein, protein-DNA, proteinlipid complexes using hydrogen-bonds, salt-bridges, aromatic-aromatic, van der Waals (vdW), hydrophobic-interactions and several others using distance criteria. Hence, large-scale data analysis is required to understand the principles of biological complex formation. Therefore, it is of interest to analyze non-covalent interaction namely, salt-bridge and aromatic-aromatic contacts in known and modeled protein complex structures. Here, we describe ASBAAC for automatic calculation of salt-bridges and aromatic-aromatic contacts in protein complexes. This software tool is fast, robust and user-friendly for large-scale analysis of inter-chain salt bridges and aromatic-aromatic contact in protein complexes.
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Keywords |
salt-bridges, aromatic-aromatic contacts, protein, program, software
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Citation |
Roy & Datta. Bioinformation 14(4): 164-166 (2018)
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Edited by |
P Kangueane
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ISSN |
0973-2063
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License |
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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