University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: PDB

3D Protein Imager a PyMOL/Qutemol web alternative

Summary Molecule of the Month In the year 2000 David Goodsell started to provide stories on the The Protein Data Bank web site as the “molecule of the month” with his unique style that was later made available by the Qutemol software, unfortunately not updated since 2007 and therefore no longer working on many systems, …

Computing residues per turn in an alpha helix

Single mutation to be modeled I recently had an interesting challenge, that of creating a molecular model of a protein expressed from a gene with a newly identified single amino acid mutation. I (wrongly) assumed that it would be a “simple” 3D homology modeling problem, solved by common methods. It turns out that the protein …

PyMOL tutorial books released

Summary: The Biochem 660 PyMOL tutorial book has been split in 4 PDFs for easier read and download: Preamble For many years I participated in the teaching of Prof. Ann Palmenberg classes, in particular teaching about molecular graphics on the Desktop at a time when computer use in the classroom was not yet preeminent. This …