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Voronoia 4-ever
We present an updated version of the Voronoia service that enables fully automated analysis of the atomic packing density of macromolecules. Voronoia combines previous efforts to analyse 3D protein and RNA structures into a single service, combined with state-of-the-art online visualization. Voronoi...
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8265189/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34107038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab466 |
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author | Staritzbichler, Rene Ristic, Nikola Goede, Andrean Preissner, Robert Hildebrand, Peter W |
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description | We present an updated version of the Voronoia service that enables fully automated analysis of the atomic packing density of macromolecules. Voronoia combines previous efforts to analyse 3D protein and RNA structures into a single service, combined with state-of-the-art online visualization. Voronoia uses the Voronoi cell method to calculate the free space between neighbouring atoms to estimate van der Waals interactions. Compared to other methods that derive van der Waals interactions by calculating solvent-free surfaces, it explicitly considers volume or packing defects. Large internal voids refer either to water molecules or ions unresolved by X-ray crystallography or cryo-EM, cryptic ligand binding pockets, or parts of a structural model that require further refinement. Voronoia is, therefore mainly used for functional analyses of 3D structures and quality assessments of structural models. Voronoia 4-ever updates the database of precomputed packing densities of PDB entries, allows uploading multiple structures, adds new filter options and facilitates direct access to the results through intuitive display with the NGL viewer. Voronoia is available at: htttp://proteinformatics.org/voronoia. |
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spelling | pubmed-82651892021-07-09 Voronoia 4-ever Staritzbichler, Rene Ristic, Nikola Goede, Andrean Preissner, Robert Hildebrand, Peter W Nucleic Acids Res Web Server Issue We present an updated version of the Voronoia service that enables fully automated analysis of the atomic packing density of macromolecules. Voronoia combines previous efforts to analyse 3D protein and RNA structures into a single service, combined with state-of-the-art online visualization. Voronoia uses the Voronoi cell method to calculate the free space between neighbouring atoms to estimate van der Waals interactions. Compared to other methods that derive van der Waals interactions by calculating solvent-free surfaces, it explicitly considers volume or packing defects. Large internal voids refer either to water molecules or ions unresolved by X-ray crystallography or cryo-EM, cryptic ligand binding pockets, or parts of a structural model that require further refinement. Voronoia is, therefore mainly used for functional analyses of 3D structures and quality assessments of structural models. Voronoia 4-ever updates the database of precomputed packing densities of PDB entries, allows uploading multiple structures, adds new filter options and facilitates direct access to the results through intuitive display with the NGL viewer. Voronoia is available at: htttp://proteinformatics.org/voronoia. Oxford University Press 2021-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8265189/ /pubmed/34107038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab466 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Web Server Issue Staritzbichler, Rene Ristic, Nikola Goede, Andrean Preissner, Robert Hildebrand, Peter W Voronoia 4-ever |
title | Voronoia 4-ever |
title_full | Voronoia 4-ever |
title_fullStr | Voronoia 4-ever |
title_full_unstemmed | Voronoia 4-ever |
title_short | Voronoia 4-ever |
title_sort | voronoia 4-ever |
topic | Web Server Issue |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8265189/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34107038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab466 |
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