InterMap3D: predicting and visualizing co-evolving protein residues

Bioinformatics. 2009 Aug 1;25(15):1963-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp335. Epub 2009 Jun 15.

Abstract

Summary: InterMap3D predicts co-evolving protein residues and plots them on the 3D protein structure. Starting with a single protein sequence, InterMap3D automatically finds a set of homologous sequences, generates an alignment and fetches the most similar 3D structure from the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It can also accept a user-generated alignment. Based on the alignment, co-evolving residues are then predicted using three different methods: Row and Column Weighing of Mutual Information, Mutual Information/Entropy and Dependency. Finally, InterMap3D generates high-quality images of the protein with the predicted co-evolving residues highlighted.

Availability: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/InterMap3D/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Databases, Protein
  • Protein Conformation
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Sequence Alignment / methods
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods
  • Software*

Substances

  • Proteins