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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2018

MolProbity: More and better reference data for improved all-atom structure validation.

Christopher J Williams, Jeffrey J Headd, Nigel W Moriarty, Michael G Prisant, Lizbeth L Videau, Lindsay N Deis, Vishal Verma, Daniel A Keedy, Bradley J Hintze, Vincent B Chen and 8 more

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5 · Who and what money

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18 authors.

Christopher J WilliamsDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Jeffrey J HeaddDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Nigel W MoriartyMolecular Biosciences and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8857-9464
Michael G PrisantDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Lizbeth L VideauDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Lindsay N DeisDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Vishal VermaDepartment of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Daniel A KeedyDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Bradley J HintzeDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Vincent B ChenDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Swati JainDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Steven M LewisDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
W Bryan ArendallDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Jack SnoeyinkDepartment of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
Paul D AdamsMolecular Biosciences and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
Simon C LovellSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
Jane S RichardsonDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
David C RichardsonDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.

Funding

PROJECT 5 - DUKE - STRUCTURE VALIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR PROTEINS AND N. ACIDSP01GM063210 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI ADAMS, PAUL DAVID · 2001 to 2021
$33.5M
MolProbity Validation & Corrections: for Crystallography, PDB & BiomedicineR01GM073919 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RICHARDSON, DAVID CLAUDE · 2006 to 2018
$3.7M
New Kind of Quality Management for X-ray &NMR ModelsR01GM073930 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RICHARDSON, DAVID CLAUDE · 2005 to 2013
$2.3M
"Low-Resolution Interiors & Interfaces Can Achieve High-Resolution Accuracy"R01GM088674 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RICHARDSON, JANE SHELBY · 2009 to 2012
$1.2M
ARRA NIH HHSNIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM063210NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM073919NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM073930NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM088674
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper describes the current update on macromolecular model validation services that are provided at the MolProbity website, emphasizing changes and additions since the previous review in 2010. There have been many infrastructure improvements, including rewrite of previous Java utilities to now use existing or newly written Python utilities in the open-source CCTBX portion of the Phenix software system. This improves long-term maintainability and enhances the thorough integration of MolProbity-style validation within Phenix. There is now a complete MolProbity mirror site at http://molprobity.manchester.ac.uk. GitHub serves our open-source code, reference datasets, and the resulting multi-dimensional distributions that define most validation criteria. Coordinate output after Asn/Gln/His "flip" correction is now more idealized, since the post-refinement step has apparently often been skipped in the past. Two distinct sets of heavy-atom-to-hydrogen distances and accompanying van der Waals radii have been researched and improved in accuracy, one for the electron-cloud-center positions suitable for X-ray crystallography and one for nuclear positions. New validations include messages at input about problem-causing format irregularities, updates of Ramachandran and rotamer criteria from the million quality-filtered residues in a new reference dataset, the CaBLAM Cα-CO virtual-angle analysis of backbone and secondary structure for cryoEM or low-resolution X-ray, and flagging of the very rare cis-nonProline and twisted peptides which have recently been greatly overused. Due to wide application of MolProbity validation and corrections by the research community, in Phenix, and at the worldwide Protein Data Bank, newly deposited structures have continued to improve greatly as measured by MolProbity's unique all-atom clashscore.

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Databases, ProteinModels, MolecularProgramming LanguagesProteinsProteinsall-atom contact analysisAsn/Gln/His flipCaBLAMCCTBXcis non-prolineelectron-cloud hydrogen positionTop8000

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PMID29067766
PMCPMC5734394

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