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Wenxiang 3.0: Evolutionary Visualization of α, π, and 3/10 Helices
John R Jungck1, Metehan Cebeci1
1Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Abstract:
Wenxiang diagrams illustrate protein helices as spirals on a plane and thus have the advantage over helical wheels of being planar graphs. Wenxiang 3.0 extends the original version by adding 3 major features: (1) individual amino acid residues can be colored according to their evolutionary conservation in comparative multiple sequence alignments using CONSURF encoding; (2) α, π, and 3/10 helices can be illustrated by overlaying arcs representative of the pitches of these helices; and, (3) the physico-chemical properties of amino acids residues in the protein sequence can be re-presented by colored geometric shapes.
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