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ArticleNucleic acids research2005

The FoldX web server: an online force field.

Joost Schymkowitz, Jesper Borg, Francois Stricher, Robby Nys, Frederic Rousseau, Luis Serrano

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,427 papers.

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1,427citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,427 citing papers in PubMed, 2,820 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Joost SchymkowitzSwitch Laboratory, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussel, Belgium. joost.schymkowitz@skynet.be
Jesper Borg
Francois Stricher
Robby Nys
Frederic Rousseau
Luis Serrano
European Molecular Biology Laboratory · DEVlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie · BEVrije Universiteit Brussel · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

FoldX is an empirical force field that was developed for the rapid evaluation of the effect of mutations on the stability, folding and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. The core functionality of FoldX, namely the calculation of the free energy of a macromolecule based on its high-resolution 3D structure, is now publicly available through a web server at http://foldx.embl.de/. The current release allows the calculation of the stability of a protein, calculation of the positions of the protons and the prediction of water bridges, prediction of metal binding sites and the analysis of the free energy of complex formation. Alanine scanning, the systematic truncation of side chains to alanine, is also included. In addition, some reporting functions have been added, and it is now possible to print both the atomic interaction networks that constitute the protein, print the structural and energetic details of the interactions per atom or per residue, as well as generate a general quality report of the pdb structure. This core functionality will be further extended as more FoldX applications are developed.

Indexed as

MutationSoftwareDatabases, ProteinInternetMolecular StructureNucleic Acid ConformationPolymorphism, Single NucleotideProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProteinsProteins

Identifiers

PMID15980494
PMCPMC1160148
OpenAlexW2023490488

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