ICM-Browser
Encyclopedia
ICM-Browser is a free product of Molsoft, and provides access to structural biology
data and protein
families. It reads PDB
or alignment files directly from online databases and provides a molecular graphics environment with various representations of proteins, DNA
and RNA
, and multiple sequence alignments.
Structural biology
Structural biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological macromolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids, how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function...
data and protein
Protein
Proteins are biochemical compounds consisting of one or more polypeptides typically folded into a globular or fibrous form, facilitating a biological function. A polypeptide is a single linear polymer chain of amino acids bonded together by peptide bonds between the carboxyl and amino groups of...
families. It reads PDB
Protein Data Bank (file format)
The Protein Data Bank file format is a textual file format describing the three dimensional structures of molecules held in the Protein Data Bank. The pdb format accordingly provides for description and annotation of protein and nucleic acid structures including atomic coordinates, observed...
or alignment files directly from online databases and provides a molecular graphics environment with various representations of proteins, DNA
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
and RNA
RNA
Ribonucleic acid , or RNA, is one of the three major macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life....
, and multiple sequence alignments.
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See also
- Internal Coordinate MechanicsInternal Coordinate MechanicsICM stands for Internal Coordinate Mechanics and was first designed and built to predict low energy conformations of biomolecules. ICM also is a programming environment for various tasks in computational chemistry and computational structural biology, sequence analysis and rational drug design...
- List of molecular graphics systems
- Molsoft