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Bioinformatics Resources for the Study of Glycan-Mediated Protein Interactions
Published on: January 20, 2022
Rapidly Display Glycan Symbols in 3D Structures: 3D-SNFG in LiteMol
David Sehnal1,2,3, Oliver C Grant4
1CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology , Masaryk University Brno , Kamenice 5 , 625 00 Brno-Bohunice , Czech Republic.
Abstract:
The representation of carbohydrates in 3D space using symbols is a powerful visualization method, but such representations are lacking in currently available visualization software. The work presented here allows researchers to display carbohydrate 3D structures as 3D-SNFG symbols using LiteMol from a web browser (e.g., v.litemol.org/?loadFromCS=5T3X ). Any PDB ID can be substituted at the end of the URL. Alternatively, the user may enter a PDB ID or upload a structure. LiteMol is available at https://v.litemol.org and automatically depicts any carbohydrate residues as 3D-SNFG symbols. To embed LiteMol in a webpage, visit https://github.com/dsehnal/LiteMol .
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