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Nitropeptide Profiling and Identification Illustrated by Angiotensin II
Published on: June 16, 2019
Illustrate: Software for Biomolecular Illustration
David S Goodsell1, Ludovic Autin2, Arthur J Olson2
1Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA; RCSB Protein Data Bank, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Abstract:
The small program Illustrate generates non-photorealistic images of biological molecules for use in dissemination, outreach, and education. The method has been used as part of the "Molecule of the Month," an ongoing educational column at the RCSB Protein Data Bank (http://rcsb.org). Insights from 20 years of application of the program are presented, and the program has been released both as open-source Fortran at GitHub and through an interactive web-based interface.
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