Abstract
ENDscript 2 is a friendly Web server for extracting and rendering a comprehensive analysis of primary to quaternary protein structure information in an automated way. This major upgrade has been fully re-engineered to enhance speed, accuracy and usability with interactive 3D visualization. It takes advantage of the new version 3 of ESPript, our well-known sequence alignment renderer, improved to handle a large number of data with reduced computation time. From a single PDB entry or file, ENDscript produces high quality figures displaying multiple sequence alignment of proteins homologous to the query, colored according to residue conservation. Furthermore, the experimental secondary structure elements and a detailed set of relevant biophysical and structural data are depicted. All this information and more are now mapped on interactive 3D PyMOL representations. Thanks to its adaptive and rigorous algorithm, beginner to expert users can modify settings to fine-tune ENDscript to their needs. ENDscript has also been upgraded as an open platform for the visualization of multiple biochemical and structural data coming from external biotool Web servers, with both 2D and 3D representations. ENDscript 2 and ESPript 3 are freely available at http://endscript.ibcp.fr and http://espript.ibcp.fr, respectively.
Keywords
VisualizationComputer scienceWeb serverUsabilityRendering (computer graphics)File formatServerBiologyData miningThe InternetComputer graphics (images)World Wide WebDatabaseOperating system
MeSH Terms
AlgorithmsCatalaseInternetProtein ConformationProtein StructureQuaternaryProtein StructureSecondarySequence AlignmentSequence AnalysisProteinSoftware
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- 42
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- W1
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Xavier Robert,
Patrice Gouet
(2014).
Deciphering key features in protein structures with the new ENDscript server.
Nucleic Acids Research
, 42
(W1)
, W320-W324.
https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku316
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- DOI
- 10.1093/nar/gku316
- PMID
- 24753421
- PMCID
- PMC4086106