software

RCrane

Author: Kevin Keating
Description: RCrane allows for semi-automated building of RNA structure within Coot.
Current version: 0.9 (released October 26, 2011) View changelog
Reference: Keating KS and Pyle AM. Semiautomated model building for RNA crystallography using a directed rotameric approach. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 107 (2010) 8177-8182.
Screenshots:
Downloading and installation instructions: Please click here to download RCrane. Instructions for installing and running the program may be found here.

 

RCrane.CLI (formerly CONDOR.CLI)

Author: Kevin Keating
Description: RCrane.CLI uses phosphate and glycosidic bond coordinates to predict and build backbone structure. Note that RCrane.CLI is a command line program and is not intended for interactive use. Crystallographers wishing to use this methodology for structure building should use RCrane, above.
Reference: Keating KS and Pyle AM. Semiautomated model building for RNA crystallography using a directed rotameric approach. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 107 (2010) 8177-8182.
Downloading and installation instructions: Please click here to download RCrane.CLI. Instructions for installing and running the program may be found here.

 

AMIGOS II

Author: Leven Wadley
Description: AMIGOS II allows the user to perform interactive comparisons between RNA structures and to conduct database searches for specific RNA structures or substructures.
Downloading and installation instructions: Please contact us if you would like to use AMIGOS II . You will be required to sign a license agreement, and then we will provide the software and installation instructions by email. It is free for academic use but carries a charge for industrial use.

 

AMIGOS

Author: Carlos Duarte
Description: AMIGOS reads an RNA PDB file and outputs a complete table of torsion angle calculations. more info.
Current version: 0.3 (2003-Aug-30)
Downloading and installation instructions: AMIGOS is a Perl script - it does not need compilation. Just download the script from the link below, check to ensure Perl is properly installed on your machine, and make the file AMIGOS executable. The program is ready to use. The output of the program is a series of spreadsheets containing conformational data. If you use KaleidaGraph to view spreadsheet data, the plot template from the figure above will assist you in viewing the data.

Downloads:
AMIGOS.pl: AMIGOS 0.3
README.txt: README file
template_all.hqx: binhexed Mac KaleidaGraph plot template
amigos.tar.gz: all the above in one tarred and gzipped archive.

 

PRIMOS

Author: Carlos Duarte
Description: PRIMOS allows the user to perform interactive comparisons between RNA structures and to conduct database searches for specific RNA structures or substructures. Note that the search capabilities of PRIMOS are also included in AMIGOS II.
Downloading and installation instructions: Please contact us if you would like to use PRIMOS. You will be required to sign a license agreement, and then we will provide the software and installation instructions by email. It is free for academic use but carries a charge for industrial use.


Qnifft

Description: Qnifft utilizes the non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann (NLPB) equation to calculate the electrostatic potentials of nucleic acids. more info.
Visualizing output: The output of Qnifft can be displayed using Spock or PyMol. For instructions, see the visualization tutorial.

Qnifft 1.4/2.2
Kim Sharp has developed an updated version of Qnifft that can be compiled for both Linux and SGI platforms. This program is available from his website. The Qnifft tutorial is written for version 1.2, but is still helpful for these newer versions.

Qnifft 1.2
Downloading and installation instructions: A binary executable file is available for download. Qnifft has been compiled and tested for Irix 6.2+. For more information, see the tutorial.
Downloads:
Qnifft: the NLPB solver
prm
: a sample parameter file
rna2.siz: atomic radii file (from Discover)
rna2.crg: partial atomic charge file (from Discover)
amber.crg: partial atomic charge file (from Amber)
qnifft.tar.gz: all the above files plus the tutorial in one tarred and gzipped archive.

 

SHEVEK

Author: Phillip S. Pang
Description: SHEVEK predicts long-range tertiary interactions within RNAs, between RNA-protein and protein-protein interactions from sequence alignments.
Reference: "Prediction of Functional Tertiary Interactions and Intermolecular Interfaces From Primary Sequence Data", PS Pang, E Jankowsky, LM Wadley and AM Pyle, J of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) (2005), 000, 1-14.
Downloading and installation instructions: Please contact us if you would like to use SHEVEK.


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Last modified:
  26-Oct-2011