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Phaser.MRage: automated molecular replacement.

Gábor Bunkóczi¹, Nathaniel Echols, Airlie J McCoy

¹Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, CIMR, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, England.

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|November 6, 2013

Summary

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Phaser.MRage automates molecular replacement, enhancing structural biology model generation and exploration. This framework efficiently handles numerous models and accelerates searches by identifying correct solutions and analyzing protein assemblies.

Keywords:

automation molecular replacement phaser.MRage pipeline

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Area of Science:

Structural Biology
Computational Biology
Biophysics

Background:

Molecular replacement (MR) is crucial for determining protein structures.
Automating the MR process and exploring multiple models efficiently remains a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Phaser.MRage, an automated framework for molecular replacement.
To enhance model generation and exploration in structural biology.

Main Methods:

Phaser.MRage implements a full model-generation workflow.
It distributes calculations efficiently onto parallel hardware.
The framework identifies correct solutions to accelerate subsequent searches.

Main Results:

Phaser.MRage can quickly score alternative models once a correct solution is found.
It performs extensive analysis to identify protein assemblies for further searches.
It utilizes a priori assembly information to customize search procedures for specific protein classes like antibodies.

Conclusions:

Phaser.MRage offers an automated and efficient solution for molecular replacement.
The framework accelerates structure determination by leveraging identified solutions and assembly information.
It provides a customizable approach for incorporating biological insights into the MR process.