TITLE:
Wenxiang: a web-server for drawing wenxiang diagrams
AUTHORS:
Kuo-Chen Chou, Wei-Zhong Lin, Xuan Xiao
KEYWORDS:
Amphiphilic Helix; Helix-Helix Interaction; Hydrophobic; Hydrophilic; 2D Diagram; Wenxiang Diagram; Helical Wheel Diagram
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.3 No.10,
October
13,
2011
ABSTRACT: The wenxiang diagram was proposed to represent α-helices in a 2D (two dimensional) space (Chou, K.C., Zhang, C.T., Maggiora, G.M. Proteins: Struct., Funct., Genet., 1997, 28, 99-108). It has the capacity to provide more information in a 2D plane about each of the constituent amino acid residues in an α-helix, and is particularly useful for studying and analyzing amphiphilic helices. To meet the increasing requests for getting the program of generating wenxiang diagrams, a user-friendly web-server called “Wenxiang” has been established. It is accessible to the public at the web-site http://www.jci-bioinfo.cn/wenxiang2 or http://icpr.jci.edu.cn/bioinfo/wenxiang2. Further- more, for the convenience of users, here we provide a step-to-step guide for how to use the Wenxiang web-server to generate the desired wenxiang diagrams.