Unlabelled: An automated procedure for the analysis of homologous protein structures has been developed. The method facilitates the characterization of internal conformational differences and inter-conformer relationships and provides a framework for the analysis of protein structural evolution. The method is implemented in bio3d, an R package for the exploratory analysis of structure and sequence data.
Availability: The bio3d package is distributed with full source code as a platform-independent R package under a GPL2 license from: http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~bgrant/bio3d/
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