An interactive 3D viewer of molecules compatible with the suite of ANTHEPROT programs

Gilbert Deléage

Unité Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, UMR 5086 CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.

DOI: 10.4236/jbpc.2012.31004                

Abstract

In this paper, I will describe a completely new 3D module which can be called from within the well known ANTHEPROT program devoted to protein sequences analysis. This module allows fully interactive handling of high-quality 3D structures with various modes of representation (CA sticks, wireframe, ball and sticks, spacefill mod-els as well as surface, ribbons, Ramachandran plots). Alternatively, ANTHEPROT 3D can be used as an external program fully independant from the global package. It is available from the download page of the web site (http://antheprot-pbil.ibcp.fr/). More than 2800 downloads last year were recorded since the program was delivered.

Keywords

Protein; Sequence Analysis; Structural Bioinformatics; Software; 3D Structures

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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