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Voro3D: 3D Voronoi tessellations applied to protein structures.

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Voro3D is an original easy-to-use tool, which provides a brand new point of view on protein structures through the three-dimensional (3D) Voronoi tessellations. To construct the Voronoi cells associated with each amino acid by a number of different tessellation methods, Voro3D uses a protein structure file in the PDB format as an input. After calculation, different structural properties of interest like secondary structures assignment, environment accessibility and exact contact matrices can be derived without any geometrical cut-off. Voro3D provides also a visualization of these tessellations superimposed on the associated protein structure, from which it is possible to model a polygonal protein surface using a model solvent or to quantify, for instance, the contact areas between a protein and a ligand.

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Minéralogie

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hal-00021968 , version 1 (30-03-2006)

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Franck Dupuis, Jean-François Sadoc, Rémi Jullien, Borislav Angelov, Jean-Paul Mornon. Voro3D: 3D Voronoi tessellations applied to protein structures.. Bioinformatics, 2005, 21, pp.1715-1716. ⟨10.1093/bioinformatics/bth365⟩. ⟨hal-00021968⟩
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