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Swiss-PdbViewer is an application that provides a user friendly interface
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allowing to analyse several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be
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superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and compare their
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active sites or any other relevant parts. Amino acid mutations, H-bonds,
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angles and distances between atoms are easy to obtain thanks to the
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intuitive graphic and menu interface.
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Moreover, Swiss-PdbViewer is tightly linked to Swiss-Model, an automated
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homology modelling server developped at Glaxo Welcome Experimental Research
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in Geneva. Working with these two programs greatly reduces the amount of work
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necessary to generate models, as it is possible to thread a protein primary
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sequence onto a 3D template and get an immediate feedback of how well the
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threaded protein will be accepted by the reference structure before
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submitting a request to build missing loops and refine sidechain packing.
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Swiss-PdbViewer can also read electron density maps, and provides various
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tools to build into the density. In addition, various modelling tools are
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integrated and command files for popular energy minimisation packages can be
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generated.
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Finally, as a special bonus, POV-Ray scenes can be generated from the
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current view in order to make stunning ray-traced quality images.
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WWW: http://www.expasy.ch/spdbv/
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