Software Updates

RELION

(REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN) a stand-alone computer program for Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) refinement of (multiple) 3D reconstructions or 2D class averages in cryo-electron microscopy.

ProteinMPNN

a deep learning based protein sequence design method.

BCFtools

a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed.

RoseTTAFold

a program that provides an accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a 3-track network.

RDKit

a collection of cheminformatics and machine-learning software written in C++ and Python.

ISOLDE

an immersive environment designed to ease the task of building high quality macromolecular models into low to medium resolution experimental maps, where the experimental information alone is insufficient to place individual atoms precisely. ISOLDE is implemented as a plugin to ChimeraX and can be conveniently installed via its built-in Tool Shed.

SAMtools

(Sequence Alignment/Map) a generic format for storing large nucleotide sequence alignments that provides various utilities for manipulating alignments, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.

Gnuplot

a portable command-line driven graphing utility originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively. It has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like CCP4 and Octave.

AlphaFold

an implementation of the inference pipeline of AlphaFold v2.0 using a completely new model that was entered in CASP14.

MDAnalysis

an object-oriented Python library to analyze trajectories from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in many popular formats. It can write most of these formats, too, together with atom selections suitable for visualization or native analysis tools.

AlphaFold

an implementation of the inference pipeline of AlphaFold v2.0 using a completely new model that was entered in CASP14.

SPHIRE

(SParx for HIgh Resolution Electron microscopy) a tool for cryoEM using statistical resampling to attain quality assessment and result reproducibility. Includes movie frame alignments (movie), CTF estimation of raw electron micrographs (cter), picking/stack creation (window), reproducible 2-D classification (isac), reproducible initial model generation (viper), automatic gold-standard 3-D refinement (meridien), local resolution estimation and filtering (localres), and up to the 3-D sorting of different conformational states based on the statistical 3-D variability of the data (sort3D).