Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on May 13, 2009
Nucleic Acids Research 2009 37(Web Server issue):W485-W491; doi:10.1093/nar/gkp368
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2009, Vol. 37, No. suppl_2 W485-W491
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@TOME-2: a new pipeline for comparative modeling of protein–ligand complexes
A.B.C.I.S., CNRS UMR5048—Universités Montpellier 1 & Montpellier II and INSERM U554, 29, Rue de Navacelles 34090 Montpellier Cedex, France
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Received January 31, 2009. Revised April 17, 2009. Accepted April 24, 2009.
@TOME 2.0 is new web pipeline dedicated to protein structure modeling and small ligand docking based on comparative analyses. @TOME 2.0 allows fold recognition, template selection, structural alignment editing, structure comparisons, 3D-model building and evaluation. These tasks are routinely used in sequence analyses for structure prediction. In our pipeline the necessary software is efficiently interconnected in an original manner to accelerate all the processes. Furthermore, we have also connected comparative docking of small ligands that is performed using protein–protein superposition. The input is a simple protein sequence in one-letter code with no comment. The resulting 3D model, protein–ligand complexes and structural alignments can be visualized through dedicated Web interfaces or can be downloaded for further studies. These original features will aid in the functional annotation of proteins and the selection of templates for molecular modeling and virtual screening. Several examples are described to highlight some of the new functionalities provided by this pipeline. The server and its documentation are freely available at http://abcis.cbs.cnrs.fr/AT2/