ValiDichro: a website for validating and quality control of protein circular dichroism spectra

Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is widely used in structural biology as a technique for examining the structure, folding and conformational changes of proteins. A new server, ValiDichro, has been developed for checking the quality and validity of CD spectral data and metadata, both as an aid to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Woollett, Benjamin, Whitmore, Lee, Janes, Robert W., Wallace, B. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3977657/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23625965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt287
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Sumario:Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is widely used in structural biology as a technique for examining the structure, folding and conformational changes of proteins. A new server, ValiDichro, has been developed for checking the quality and validity of CD spectral data and metadata, both as an aid to data collection and processing and as a validation procedure for spectra to be included in publications. ValiDichro currently includes 25 tests for data completeness, consistency and quality. For each test that is done, not only is a validation report produced, but the user is also provided with suggestions for correcting or improving the data. The ValiDichro server is freely available at http://valispec.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/circularDichroism/ValiDichro/upload.html.

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