MDavocado: Analysis and Visualization of Protein Motion by Time-Dependent Angular Diagrams

Crosbi ID849334
Year2024
StatusObjavljeno
Typeprilog u časopisu
Subtypeizvorni znanstveni rad
AuthorsGomaz, Boris; Pandini, Alessandro; Maršavelski, Aleksandra; Štefanić, Zoran
JournalJournal of chemical information and modeling
Volume64
Issue15
Pagesstr. 5742-5748
DOI10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00650
ISSN1549-9596
EISSN1549-960X
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en original MDavocado: Analysis and Visualization of Protein Motion by Time-Dependent Angular Diagrams

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Extracting meaningful information from atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of proteins remains a challenging task due to the high-dimensionality and complexity of the data. MD simulations yield trajectories that contain the positions of thousands of atoms in millions of steps. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of local dynamical events across the entire trajectory is often difficult. Here, we present a novel approach to visualize MD trajectories in the form of time-dependent Ramachandran plots. Specialized data aggregation techniques are employed to address the challenge of plotting millions of data points on a single image, thereby ensuring that the analysis is independent of the molecule size and/or length of the MD simulation. This approach facilitates quick identification of flexible and dynamic regions, and its strength is the ability to simultaneously observe the movements of all amino acids over time. The Python program MDavocado is freely available at GitHub (https://github.com/zoranstefanic/MDavocado).

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en original Computational chemistry; Conformation; Monomers; Peptides and proteins; Protein structure

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Gomaz, Boris; Pandini, Alessandro; Maršavelski, Aleksandra; Štefanić, Zoran
MDavocado: Analysis and Visualization of Protein Motion by Time-Dependent Angular Diagrams // Journal of chemical information and modeling, 64 (2024), 15; 5742-5748. doi: 10.1021/acs.jcim.4c00650
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