Introduction

SUMMARY: Contact maps are a valuable visualization tool in structural biology. They are a convenient way to display proteins in two dimensions and to quickly identify structural features such as domain architecture, secondary structure and contact clusters. We developed a tool called CMView which integrates rich contact map analysis with 3D visualization using PyMol. Our tool provides functions for contact map calculation from structure, basic editing, visualization in contact map and 3D space and structural comparison with different built-in alignment methods. A unique feature is the interactive refinement of structural alignments based on user selected substructures. AVAILABILITY: CMView is freely available for Linux, Windows and MacOS. The software and a comprehensive manual can be downloaded from http://www.bioinformatics.org/cmview/. The source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Publications

  1. CMView: interactive contact map visualization and analysis.
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    Vehlow C, Stehr H, Winkelmann M, Duarte JM, Petzold L, Dinse J, Lappe M, 2011-06-01 - Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

Credits

  1. Corinna Vehlow
    Developer

  2. Henning Stehr
    Developer

  3. Matthias Winkelmann
    Developer

  4. José M Duarte
    Developer

  5. Lars Petzold
    Developer

  6. Juliane Dinse
    Developer

  7. Michael Lappe
    Investigator

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AccessionBT006633
Tool TypeApplication
Category
PlatformsLinux/Unix
Technologies
User InterfaceTerminal Command Line
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Submitted ByMichael Lappe