iMembrane: homology-based membrane-insertion of proteins.
basic_science · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp102 and PMC identifier 2666813.
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Abstract
iMembrane is a homology-based method, which predicts a membrane protein's position within a lipid bilayer. It projects the results of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations onto any membrane protein structure or sequence provided by the user. iMembrane is simple to use and is currently the only computational method allowing the rapid prediction of a membrane protein's lipid bilayer insertion. Bilayer insertion data are essential in the accurate structural modelling of membrane proteins or the design of drugs that target them.
Medical subject headings
- Computational Biology
- Membrane Proteins
- Software