FastContact
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FastContact is an algorithm for the rapid estimate of contact and binding free energies for protein–protein complex structures. It is based on a statistically determined desolvation contact potential and Coulomb electrostatics with a distance-dependent dielectric constant. The application also reports residue contact free energies that rapidly highlight the hotspots of the interaction.
The programme was written in Fortran 77 by Carlos J. Camacho and Chao Zhang at the Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh, PA.[1] A web server for running FastContact online or downloading the binary was set up by P. Christoph Champ in July 2005.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Camacho CJ, Zhang C (2005). "FastContact: rapid estimate of contact and binding free energies". Bioinformatics. 21 (10): 2534–2536. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti322. PMID 15713734.
- ^ Camacho CJ, Ma H, Champ PC (2006). "Scoring a diverse set of high-quality docked conformations: A metascore based on electrostatic and desolvation interactions". Proteins. 63 (4): 868–877. doi:10.1002/prot.20932. PMID 16506242. S2CID 13143572.
- ^ Champ PC, Camacho CJ (2007). "FastContact: a free energy scoring tool for protein-protein complex structures". Nucleic Acids Res. 35 (Web addition): W556–60. doi:10.1093/nar/gkm326. PMC 1933237. PMID 17537824.
External links
[edit]- FastContact binaries — binaries are freely available for download (with documentation).
- FastContact Server — set up by P. Christoph Champ in July 2005.
- FastContact Wiki
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