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Chapter 1: The molecular motions<br />

database: new tools and their<br />

applicability to studying domain<br />

motions<br />

Overview<br />

At the outset of the current work we decided that in order to study domain motions it<br />

would be useful to first improve the infrastructure used by the community to study<br />

macromolecular motions. The database of molecular motions, MolMovDB<br />

(http://molmovdb.org), has been in existence for the past decade and is widely used to<br />

observe, analyze, and compare conformational changes. It classifies macromolecular<br />

motions and provides tools to interpolate between two conformations (the Morph Server)<br />

and predict possible motions in a single structure. In this chapter, published in Nucleic<br />

Acids Research, we describe various tools which we added to MolMovDB in preparation<br />

for further dynamical studies. In particular, we have developed the Morph Server to<br />

produce improved interpolations between two submitted structures. We have added<br />

support for multiple chains to the original adiabatic mapping interpolation, allowing the<br />

analysis of subunit motions. We also added the option of using FRODA, which allows for<br />

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