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3DPatch: Fast 3D structure visualization with residue conservation

Publication at Faculty of Science, Central Library of Charles University |
2019

Abstract

Amino acid residues showing above background levels of conservation are often indicative of functionally significant regions within a protein. Understanding how the sequence conservation profile relates in space requires projection onto a protein structure, a potentially time-consuming process. 3DPatch is a web application that streamlines this task by automatically generating multiple sequence alignments (where appropriate) and finding structural homologs, presenting the user with a choice of structures matching their query, annotated with residue conservation scores in a matter of seconds.