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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

ProteinsPlus: a publicly available resource for protein structure mining.

Christiane Ehrt, Thorben Schulze, Joel Graef, Konrad Diedrich, Jonathan Pletzer-Zelgert, Matthias Rarey

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Christiane EhrtUniversity of Hamburg, ZBH - Center for Bioinformatics, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1428-0042
Thorben SchulzeUniversity of Hamburg, ZBH - Center for Bioinformatics, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0008-8633-7662
Joel GraefUniversity of Hamburg, ZBH - Center for Bioinformatics, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8327-4936
Konrad DiedrichUniversity of Hamburg, ZBH - Center for Bioinformatics, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8171-0888
Jonathan Pletzer-ZelgertUniversity of Hamburg, ZBH - Center for Bioinformatics, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0000-5545-7129
Matthias RareyUniversity of Hamburg, ZBH - Center for Bioinformatics, Albert-Einstein-Ring 8-10, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9553-6531

Funding

BMBF 031L0105BMBF 031L0172Ministry of Education W-de.NBI-012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The openly accessible ProteinsPlus web server at https://proteins.plus is a unique resource enabling protein structure mining and modeling, focussing on protein-ligand interactions. Since its launch in 2017, the number of tools is steadily increasing. Currently, the server comprises six methods for protein structure analysis, four tools for mining the Protein Data Bank (PDB), and five prediction approaches regarding protein-ligand complex modeling. Users can use experimental structures from the PDB or computationally predicted structures from the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database as starting points. Alternatively, they can upload individual structure files. Recent updates include novel methods for detecting binding sites and predicting solvent channels in crystallographic structures, as well as updates of tools for protein-ligand interaction depiction in 2D and binding site mining. Given these updates, we present a real-life application scenario that underpins the novelties and applicability of the web server's tools for modern structure-based design projects. It also highlights the next steps for the web server, which will be redesigned using a different technology stack to improve the inter-usability of the tools, ease maintainability, and make it future-proof.

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Databases, ProteinData MiningProteinsSoftwareBinding SitesInternetLigandsModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein ConformationLigandsProteins

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PMID40326518
PMCPMC12230695

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