ASBAAC: Automated Salt-Bridge and Aromatic-Aromatic Calculator

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. AVAILABILITY: ASBAAC is available for free at http://sourceforge.net/projects/asbaac