| Literature DB >> 25904629 |
Jae-Kwan Kim1, Youngsong Cho1, Mokwon Lee2, Roman A Laskowski3, Seong Eon Ryu4, Kokichi Sugihara5, Deok-Soo Kim6.
Abstract
Molecular cavities, which include voids and channels, are critical for molecular function. We present a webserver, BetaCavityWeb, which computes these cavities for a given molecular structure and a given spherical probe, and reports their geometrical properties: volume, boundary area, buried area, etc. The server's algorithms are based on the Voronoi diagram of atoms and its derivative construct: the beta-complex. The correctness of the computed result and computational efficiency are both mathematically guaranteed. BetaCavityWeb is freely accessible at the Voronoi Diagram Research Center (VDRC) (http://voronoi.hanyang.ac.kr/betacavityweb).Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25904629 PMCID: PMC4489219 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv360
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971