DelPhiForce web server: electrostatic forces and energy calculations and visualization
Author(s) -
Lin Li,
Zhe Jia,
Yunhui Peng,
Arghya Chakravorty,
Lexuan Sun,
Emil Alexov
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx495
Subject(s) - web server , computer science , visualization , electrostatics , software , domain (mathematical analysis) , web application , force field (fiction) , the internet , computational science , chemistry , data mining , world wide web , operating system , mathematics , artificial intelligence , mathematical analysis
Electrostatic force is an essential component of the total force acting between atoms and macromolecules. Therefore, accurate calculations of electrostatic forces are crucial for revealing the mechanisms of many biological processes. We developed a DelPhiForce web server to calculate and visualize the electrostatic forces at molecular level. DelPhiForce web server enables modeling of electrostatic forces on individual atoms, residues, domains and molecules, and generates an output that can be visualized by VMD software. Here we demonstrate the usage of the server for various biological problems including protein-cofactor, domain-domain, protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-RNA interactions.
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