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CALCOM: A software for calculating the center of mass of proteins
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Authors |
Susan Costantini1, 2, Antonella Paladino1, 2, and Angelo M. Facchiano1, 2, *
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Affiliation |
1Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Institute of Food Science, CNR, via Roma 52 A/C, 83100 Avellino, Italy; 2CRISCEB, Research Center of Computational and Biotechnological Sciences, Second University of Naples, via Costantinopoli 16, 80138 Naples, Italy
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39 0825 299625
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39 0825 299813; * Corresponding author
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Article Type |
Web Server
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Date |
received January 08, 2008; revised January 18, 2008; accepted January 26, 2008; published February 09, 2008
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Abstract |
The center of mass of a protein is an artificial point useful for detecting important and simple features of proteins structure, shape and association.
CALCOM is a software which calculates the center of mass of a protein, starting from PDB protein structure files. In the case of protein complexes and of protein-small ligand complexes, the position of protein residues or of ligand atoms respect to each protein subunit can be evaluated, as well as the distance among the center of mass of the protein subunits, in order to compare different conformations and evaluate the relative motion of subunits.
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The service is available at the URL: http://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/CALCOM/
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Keywords |
center of mass; proteins; protein subunits distance; web-software | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Citation |
Costantini et al., Bioinformation 2(7): 271-272 (2008)
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I. Roterman
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0973-2063
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Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group
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Copyright |
Publisher
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Copyright Transfer Agreement |
The authors of published articles in Bioinformation automatically transfer the copyright to the publisher upon formal acceptance. However, the authors reserve right to use the information contained in the article for non commercial purposes.
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License |
This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.
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