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LifeSoaks was designed to find solvent channels in macromolecular structures solved by X-ray crystallography. It predicts their accessibility by molecules through an automated annotation of so-called bottleneck radii. It simplifies the process of manually checking a crystal structure for solvent channels. Bottleneck radii can be calculated for solvent channels and small molecule binding sites. The tool is ideally suited for channel analyses before the actual soaking experiments to select the most promising experimental conditions and crystal forms. LifeSoaks runs fully automated and will finish within seconds to minutes for moderately sized crystals.

Three-dimensional protein structures play a vital role in drug design. Structure-based design necessitates an in-depth examination of the available quality data before using the structure in computational experiments and for method evaluation. StructureProfiler assists in automatically profiling sets of protein-ligand complex structures based on multiple quality indicators, ranging from model characteristics, e.g., the R factor, and active site features, e.g., bond length deviations, to ligand properties such as electron density support and the validity of torsion angles.

The electron density score for individual atoms (EDIA) quantifies the electron density fit of each atom in a crystallographically resolved structure. Multiple EDIA values can be combined using the power mean to compute the EDIAm, i.e., the electron density score for a group of several atoms. It enables users to score a set of atoms, such as a ligand, a residue, or an active site.

Protoss is a fully automated hydrogen atom placement tool for protein-ligand complexes. It adds missing hydrogen atoms to protein structures and detects reasonable protonation states, tautomeric states, and hydrogen coordinates of both protein and ligand molecules by optimizing the hydrogen bond network.

WarPP predicts the position and orientation of water molecules in small-molecule binding sites. It places and scores water molecules in binding sites of crystallographic structures based on EDIAscorer results and interaction geometries as known from experimentally solved protein structures. WarPP was validated on a high-quality set of 1,500 protein-ligand complexes, containing 20,000 crystallographically observed water molecules. It is sufficiently fast for high-throughput analyses. It correctly places water molecules in approx. 80% of the cases. Users can export the predictions as PDB files for, e.g., molecular docking with JAMDA.

GeoMine enables the automated mining of protein-ligand binding sites. Based on individually designed queries, users can search for spatial interaction patterns in huge collections of protein-ligand complexes and binding pockets. The regularly updated GeoMine database relies on the free database systems SQLite and PostgreSQL. It supports radius-based pockets (based on ligands and predicted pockets (based on DoGSite3) for query generation. The query management is based on XML (for the REST service) or JSON in the GUI mode. Its output consists of the query-based superpositions of the matched binding sites and statistics on matching points, distances, and angles.

SIENA is a software pipeline enabling the fully automated construction of protein structure ensembles from the PDB. Starting with a single query structure, all binding sites with high sequence similarity are extracted from the PDB, aligned, and superimposed. SIENA also handles complicated cases, such as comparing binding sites at protein domain interfaces or within multimeric proteins.

MicroMiner assists in identifying single-residue substitutions in protein structure databases. It searches protein residue environments with local sequence and structural similarity based on the SIENA methodology. Users can search for structural mutation in the entire PDB, their in-house structure collection, or (subsets of) the AlphaFold Database. They can use the method to explore the mutation landscape of proteins with experimental or predicted structures. MicroMiner can be applied to single domains or even protein-protein or protein-ligand interfaces. Several filter options to simplify downstream analysis are available.

PoseView automatically generates 2D diagrams of protein-ligand complexes, focusing on the interactions between protein and ligand. Interactions between molecules are estimated by an underlying interaction mode that relies on atom types and simple geometric criteria. It adheres to the conventions of chemical structure diagram generation. The quality of the resulting diagrams is comparable to manually drawn examples from books and scientific publications.

METALizer predicts the coordination geometry of metal ions in metalloproteins. Users can compare potential coordination geometries to those found in the examined structure. The predicted coordination geometries and the observed metal interaction distances can be interactively compared to statistics calculated based on the PDB.

PoseEdit automatically generates 2D diagrams of protein-ligand complexes, focusing on the interactions between protein and ligand. Interactions between molecules are estimated by an underlying interaction model that relies on atom types and simple geometric criteria. The structure mining tool GeoMine also uses this model to describe binding sites. In addition, users can manipulate the diagrams by translating, rotating, mirroring parts of the structure, adding additional interactions, or removing them. Furthermore, users can add individual labels or adjust available labels. Users can download the final 2D diagrams for a binding site of interest in JSON or SVG format.

DoGSiteScorer is a grid-based automated pocket detection and analysis tool. It applies a Difference of Gaussian filter to detect potential binding pockets and splits them into sub-pockets. The method solely uses the 3D structure of the protein. Global properties, describing the size, shape, and chemical features of the predicted (sub-)pockets, are calculated. Per default, a simple druggability score based on a linear combination of the three descriptors describing volume, hydrophobicity, and enclosure is provided for each (sub-)pocket. Furthermore, a subset of meaningful descriptors is incorporated in a support vector machine (libsvm) to predict the (sub-)pocket druggability score (values are between zero and one). The higher the score, the more druggable the pocket is estimated to be.

DoGSite3 was developed for predicting robust and reliable small molecule binding sites and computing their geometrical and chemical descriptors. It is based on the grid-based DoGSite algorithm for predicting pockets and their sub-pockets. The new tool is largely rotation- and translation-invariant due to a normalization procedure before binding site prediction. Known ligands in the structure can be used to bias the grid by sufficiently buried ligand fragments. The output encompasses novel chemical binding site descriptors considering solvent accessibility. Compared to its predecessor, it shows increased robustness through comprehensive parameter optimization. DoGSite3 runs finish within seconds.

JAMDA enables the preparation of individual protein structures and the docking of small molecules in preprocessed binding sites of choice. JAMDA simplifies the process of protein-ligand docking by automatic preprocessing protocols for the protein and binding sites of interest. The JAMDAscore scoring function retrieved 75% of the native poses in the three highest-ranked solutions for high-quality protein-ligand complexes with default settings. Individual configurations for protein preparation are available, e.g., considering protein ensembles, relevant binding site water molecules, or cofactors. A user-defined number of input conformations for the ligands of interest can be generated fully automated using Conformator. Alternatively, users can also provide externally prepared ligand conformers.

HyPPI classifies a protein-protein complex based on its interaction type into permanent, transient, or crystal artifact. Permanent protein-protein complexes are only stable in their complexed state. Their subunits would denature upon dissociation of the protein-protein complex. Transient protein-protein complexes are stable in the complexed as well as in the monomeric form, depending on the necessary function of the complex. Crystal artifacts have no biological function and are artificially formed during the crystallization process. The discrimination is performed using two characteristics of the protein-protein complex, the hydrophobicity of the interface (ΔGhydrophobic) and the quotient of interface area ratios (IF-quotient). The IF-quotient considers whether the protein-protein interface is symmetric.