pyHVis3D: visualising molecular simulation deduced H-bond networks in 3D: application to T-cell receptor interactions.

Knapp, Bernhard; Alcala, Marta; Zhang, Hao; West, Clare E; van der Merwe, P Anton; Deane, Charlotte M · Bioinformatics · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) play an essential role for many molecular interactions but are also often transient, making visualising them in a flexible system challenging. We provide pyHVis3D which allows for an easy to interpret 3D visualisation of H-bonds resulting from molecular simulations. We demonstrate the power of pyHVis3D by using it to explain the changes in experimentally measured binding affinities for three T-cell receptor/peptide/MHC complexes and mutants of each of these complexes. pyHVis3D can be downloaded for free from http://opig.stats.ox.ac.uk/resources. science.bernhard.knapp@gmail.com. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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