| Computational Chemistry [message #628] |
Mon, 16 September 2019 16:02  |
ruthamcau
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Registered: September 2019
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I'm doing undergraduate research with my professor at my university on computational chemistry and my task is to run energy minimization calculations with molecular mechanics for the protein, fibronectin. I'm using TINKER for energy calculations, however, it requires a third-party molecular editor that can generate coordinate files (i.e. .xyz, .pdb, etc. in the appropriate file format. Is there someone with experience with computational chemistry? I'm interested in building coordinates for this particular peptide sequence,
YAVTGRGDSPASSKPISINYRTEIG KPSQMC
The problem is that I can't find a decent molecular editor, if there is one that I could just input the peptide sequence without having to manually construct it that would be very helpful.
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| Re: Computational Chemistry [message #629 is a reply to message #628] |
Tue, 17 September 2019 16:44  |
nbehrnd
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Registered: June 2019
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Dear ruthamcau,
the single-letter abbreviation in your example is used by the Fasta
format [1]. This is one of the file formats openbabel [2] accepts as
input; available for free, either with a GUI, or to run on CLI / script
with bindings to languages like Python, C++. Beside .xyz and .pdb, the
.txyz for TINKER equally is one of the formats openbabel may write. As
option, openbabel itself may offer /a guess/ about the conformation with
forcefields like UFF or MMFF94 but intended for small molecules.
Avogadro [3] may be on first sight less interesting for you because it
lacks an export to TINKER, and allowing you to construct via GUI (build
-> insert) peptides by three-letter, RNA/DNA by single-letter buttons.
But under «extensions» you have multiple templates to set up input files
of quite a number of quantum chemical programs; as such complementary
to pure openbabel.
Continuing with a programmatic approach to handle peptide sequences, I
would mention Biopython [4] and the more general introduction to Python
for Bioscientists by Ekmekci et al. in PLOS Computational Bioploy [5,
openaccess] (e.g., exercise #10).
Good luck,
Norwid
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA_format
[2] http://openbabel.org/wiki/Main_Page
[3] http://avogadro.cc/
[4] https://biopython.org/
[5] https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004867
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