RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 CMPyMOL: A Tool for Protein Contact-Map Analysis
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 084269
DO 10.1101/084269
A1 Venkatramanan Krishnamani
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/10/28/084269.abstract
AB Contact-maps are reduced 2D representation of the 3D spatial configuration of a protein. Many valuable structural features like secondary structures, inter- and intra-protein interactions, interacting domains, etc., can be readily identified from these maps. However, it is not straightforward and intuitive to reckon the spatial organization of the contact regions from reduced representation. The CMPyMOL software attempts to bridge this gap as an interactive graphical tool for protein contact-maps that interfaces with PyMOL for 3D visualization. Importantly, CMPyMOL helps understand the functional importance of contacts by providing visual overlays of various structural and biochemical properties of a protein on top of its contact-map.Availability CMPyMOL is freely available for Linux and Mac OS X platforms. The source code and user guide can be downloaded from http://emptyewer.github.io/CMPyMOL. The source code is licensed under The MIT License.