Abhishek Tiwari:SOFTWARE NOTES
SOFTWARE NOTES
Oxford Bioinformatics Volume 22 | Number 22 | 15 November 2006
- Helix Interaction Tool (HIT): a web-based tool for analysis of helix-helix interactions in proteins
Synopsis
In many proteins, helix–helix interactions can be critical to establishing protein conformation (folding) and dynamics, as well as determining associations between protein units. However, the determination of a set of rules that guide helix–helix interaction has been elusive. In order to gain further insight into the helix–helix interface, we have developed a comprehensive package of tools for analyzing helix–helix packing in proteins. These tools are available at http://helix.gersteinlab.org. They include quantitative measures of the helix interaction surface area and helix crossing angle, as well as several methods for visualizing the helical interaction. These methods can be used for analysis of individual protein conformations or to gain insight into dynamic changes in helix interactions. For the latter purpose, a direct interface from entries in the Molecular Motions Database to the HIT site has been provided.
TreeDyn
http://www.treedyn.org/
BMC Bioinformatics Volume 7 | OCTOBER 2006
- TreeDyn: towards dynamic graphics and annotations for analyses of trees
Synopsis TreeDyn is a tree visualization and annotation tool which includes tools for tree manipulation and annotation and uses meta-information through dynamic graphical operators or scripting to help analyses and annotations of single trees or tree collections.TreeDyn is using annotations and dynamic graphical methods for editing and analyzing multiple trees. The main features of TreeDyn are 1) the management of multiple windows and multiple trees per window, 2) the export of graphics to several standard file formats with or without HTML encapsulation and a new format called TGF, which enables saving and restoring graphical analysis, 3) the projection of texts or symbols facing leaf labels or linked to nodes, through manual pasting or by using annotation files, 4) the highlight of graphical elements after querying leaf labels (or annotations) or by selection of graphical elements and information extraction, 5) the highlight of targeted trees according to a source tree browsed by the user, 6) powerful scripts for automating repetitive graphical tasks, 7) a command line interpreter enabling the use of TreeDyn through CGI scripts for online building of trees, 8) the inclusion of a library of packages dedicated to specific research fields involving trees.
