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IRECS - Iterated REduction of Conformational Space

IRECS is a program that predicts the conformation of protein side chains [1]. It does so either using only backbone information or using additional template information about the side-chain conformations.

The input is a standard PDB format protein as the template structure. The sequence to be modelled can be either given as single mutation strings, a target sequence file or an alignment file. If no information about mutations is given, the side chain conformations of the template structure are re-predicted. If a target sequence is provided, the residues of the template structure will be mutated according to this sequence. The prediction is guided by a combination of our atom-interaction potential ROTA and rotamer scores calculated with probabilities from the Backbone-Dependent Rotamer Library of the Dunbrack research group [2]. Side-chain conformations are build using standard CHARMM [3] bond lengths and angles. IRECS can ouput multiple ambigous positions of side chains and assigns a occupancy value to these conformations based on the observed interactions with the rest of the protein.

What IRECS especially good for


News

Version 1.3 - 12. December 2007

Version 1.2 - 8. August 2007

Version 1.1 - 24. May 2007

Version 1.0 - 19. Oct 2006

Reference

Please cite IRECS as follows

[1] Hartmann, C., Antes, I., Lengauer, T. IRECS: A new algorithm for the selection of most probable ensembles of side-chain conformations in protein models. Protein Sci. 2007 16: 1294-1307.

Additional Reference

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[2] Dunbrack, R.L., Jr., Cohen, F.E. Bayesian statistical analysis of protein side-chain rotamer preferences. Protein Sci. 6:1661-1681, 1997.

[3] MacKerell, J.A.D., Bashford, D., Bellott, M., Dunbrack Jr, R.L.a.E.J.D., Field, M.J., Fischer, S., Gao, J., Guo, H., Ha, S.a.J.-M.D., Kuchnir, L., et al. 1998. All-atom empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins. J. Phys. Chem. B 102: 3586-3616.