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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography2008

BALBES: a molecular-replacement pipeline.

Fei Long, Alexei A Vagin, Paul Young, Garib N Murshudov

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Biological crystallography, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 487 papers.

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4 authors.

Fei LongYork Structural Biology Laboratory, Chemistry Department, University of York, Heslington, York, England.
Alexei A Vagin
Paul Young
Garib N Murshudov

Funding

Improved Macromolecular Refinement MethodsR01GM069758 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI TEN EYCK, LYNN F. · 2004 to 2007
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS 1 R01 GM069758-03NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM069758Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 064405/Z/01/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number of macromolecular structures solved and deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) is higher than 40 000. Using this information in macromolecular crystallography (MX) should in principle increase the efficiency of MX structure solution. This paper describes a molecular-replacement pipeline, BALBES, that makes extensive use of this repository. It uses a reorganized database taken from the PDB with multimeric as well as domain organization. A system manager written in Python controls the workflow of the process. Testing the current version of the pipeline using entries from the PDB has shown that this approach has huge potential and that around 75% of structures can be solved automatically without user intervention.

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Protein Structure, TertiarySoftwareAlgorithmsComputer SimulationCrystallography, X-RayDatabases, ProteinModels, Molecular

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PMID18094476
PMCPMC2394813

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