Bioinformatics

PDBest: a user-friendly platform for manipulating and enhancing protein structures

Goncalves, W. R. S., Goncalves-Almeida, V. M., Arruda, A. L., Meira, W., da Silveira, C. H., Pires, D. E. V., de Melo-Minardi, R. C..

Summary: PDBest (PDB Enhanced Structures Toolkit) is a user-friendly, freely available platform for acquiring, manipulating and normalizing protein structures in a high-throughput and seamless fashion. With an intuitive graphical interface it allows users with no programming background to download and manipulate their files. The platform also exports protocols, enabling users to easily share PDB searching and filtering criteria, enhancing analysis reproducibility.

Availability and implementation: PDBest installation packages are freely available for several platforms at http://www.pdbest.dcc.ufmg.br

Contact: wellisson@dcc.ufmg.br, dpires@dcc.ufmg.br, raquelcm@dcc.ufmg.br

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.