KVFinder: Steered identification of protein cavities as a PyMOL plugin

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Oliveira, Saulo H P ^b,c   Ferraz, Felipe A N ^a,b   Honorato, Rodrigo V ^a,b   Xavier Neto, José ^a   Sobreira, Tiago J P ^a   de Oliveira, Paulo S L ^a  

^a BRAZILIAN CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN ENERGY AND MATERIALS CNPEM   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

KVFinder; Protein cavities; PyMOL plugin; Volume calculation

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS; KVFINDER; PLUG-INS; PROTEIN CAVITY; PROTEIN-BINDING SITES; PROTEIN-LIGAND INTERACTIONS; SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION; VOLUME CALCULATION;

PROTEINS;

LIGAND; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84902300574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-197     Document Type: Article

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