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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics presents:

Swiss-PdbViewer

DeepView

v4.1

by Nicolas Guex , Alexandre Diemand , Manuel C. Peitsch , & Torsten Schwede

Information for MacOS Sierra (10.12.*) users [January 26th, 2017]  

  • Please download version 4.1.1, which has been patched to work on OSX 10.12
  • For information, v4.1.0 only works up to OSX El Capitan (10.11). When launched on OSX 10.12, it will quit immediately after reporting "Fatal error: the folder ‘usrstuff’ is missing"

Version 4.1 is available [October 9th, 2012]  

  • The major change compared to 4.04 is the abandon of the default non openGL rendering mode which was causing various color issues on recent Apple hardware.
  • New tool: Possibility to detect hydrophobic patches, see tutorial
  • New tool: Detection of grooves (open cavities)
  • New tool: Detection of contact surfaces, see tutorial
  • Added an atom radius table in the usrstuff directory. This can be modified to override the default size of the spheres drawn on screen for a given atom type.

Description

Swiss-PdbViewer (aka DeepView) is an application that provides a user friendly interface allowing to analyze several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and compare their active sites or any other relevant parts. Amino acid mutations, H-bonds, angles and distances between atoms are easy to obtain thanks to the intuitive graphic and menu interface.

Swiss-PdbViewer (aka DeepView) has been developped since 1994 by Nicolas Guex. Swiss-PdbViewer is tightly linked to SWISS-MODEL, an automated homology modeling server developed within the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) at the Structural Bioinformatics Group at the Biozentrum in Basel.

Working with these two programs greatly reduces the amount of work necessary to generate models, as it is possible to thread a protein primary sequence onto a 3D template and get an immediate feedback of how well the threaded protein will be accepted by the reference structure before submitting a request to build missing loops and refine sidechain packing.

Swiss-PdbViewer can also read electron density maps, and provides various tools to build into the density. In addition, various modeling tools are integrated and residues can be mutated.

Finally, as a special bonus, POV-Ray scenes can be generated from the current view in order to make stunning ray-traced quality images. An example can be found here.

 

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