[cmview-users] The Contact Geometry Analysis Plugin (CGAP) for CMView

[Henning Stehr]

Dear CMView users,

a new plugin for CMView, the Contact Geometry Analysis Plugin (CGAP)
has been released and is available for download from:

http://www.bioinformatics.org/cmview/download.html

The new plugin provides rich, interactive tools for analysing the
geometric environment of residue-residue contacts in protein
structures. The idea is similar to that of the well-known Ramachandran
plot. But instead of dihedral angles, CGAP visualises angular
preferences for arbitrary contacts. It also shows how a selected
contact compares to angular preferences observed in the PDB. This
information can be used in an explorative way to find and understand
residue interaction patterns or in a more applied way for structure
modelling.

This is still an early beta version, so expect to find bugs and please
do report them to the list.

Thanks,
Henning