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ReviewFrontiers in bioinformatics2022

Connecting the dots: A practical evaluation of web-tools for describing protein dynamics as networks.

Francesco Petrizzelli, Tommaso Biagini, Salvatore Daniele Bianco, Niccolò Liorni, Alessandro Napoli, Stefano Castellana, Tommaso Mazza

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Review in Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Francesco PetrizzelliBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Tommaso BiaginiBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Salvatore Daniele BiancoBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Niccolò LiorniBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Alessandro NapoliBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Stefano CastellanaBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
Tommaso MazzaBioinformatics Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein Structure Networks (PSNs) are a well-known mathematical model for estimation and analysis of the three-dimensional protein structure. Investigating the topological architecture of PSNs may help identify the crucial amino acid residues for protein stability and protein-protein interactions, as well as deduce any possible mutational effects. But because proteins go through conformational changes to give rise to essential biological functions, this has to be done dynamically over time. The most effective method to describe protein dynamics is molecular dynamics simulation, with the most popular software programs for manipulating simulations to infer interaction networks being RING, MD-TASK, and NAPS. Here, we compare the computational approaches used by these three tools-all of which are accessible as web servers-to understand the pathogenicity of missense mutations and talk about their potential applications as well as their advantages and disadvantages.

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dynamic residue interaction networksgraph theorymolecular dynamics simulationsnetwork analysisprotein structure networks

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PMID36438625
PMCPMC9689706

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