Integrative structure modeling with the Integrative Modeling Platform. (10th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Webb, Benjamin; Viswanath, Shruthi; Bonomi, Massimiliano; Pellarin, Riccardo; Greenberg, Charles H.; Saltzberg, Daniel; Sali, Andrej
• Is Part Of: Protein science. Volume 27:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 245
• Page End: 258
• Publication Date: 2017-10-10
• Subjects: integrative modeling -- hybrid modeling -- computational optimization -- structural biology; Proteins -- Periodicals; 572.6
• DOI: 10.1002/pro.3311
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-8368

Abstract

Abstract: Building models of a biological system that are consistent with the myriad data available is one of the key challenges in biology. Modeling the structure and dynamics of macromolecular assemblies, for example, can give insights into how biological systems work, evolved, might be controlled, and even designed. Integrative structure modeling casts the building of structural models as a computational optimization problem, for which information about the assembly is encoded into a scoring function that evaluates candidate models. Here, we describe our open source software suite for integrative structure modeling, Integrative Modeling Platform (https://integrativemodeling.org ), and demonstrate its use.