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LiteMol suite: interactive web-based visualization of large-scale macromolecular structure data

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We present the LiteMol suite, a tool for visualizing large macromolecular structure data sets that is freely available at https://www.litemol.org.

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Figure 1: LiteMol suite architecture and case studies.

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This research has been financially supported by the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE project, grant agreement no. 676559; ELIXIR CZ research infrastructure project (MEYS grant no. LM2015047); European Regional Development Fund-Project ELIXIR-CZ (no. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001777); Wellcome Trust (104948) and EMBL-EBI. K.B. acknowledges MEYS NPUII grant no. LO1305. A.M. was also financed by Brno City Municipality (Ph.D. Talent Scholarship). We wish to thank M. Conroy and P. Haslam (PDBe, EMBL-EBI) for helpful reviews.

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  1. CEITEC, Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    David Sehnal, Radka Svobodová Vařeková, Adam Midlik, Lukáš Pravda & Jaroslav Koča

  2. National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    David Sehnal, Radka Svobodová Vařeková, Adam Midlik, Lukáš Pravda & Jaroslav Koča

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    David Sehnal, Mandar Deshpande, Saqib Mir & Sameer Velankar

  4. Department of Physical Chemistry, Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

    Karel Berka

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Sehnal, D., Deshpande, M., Vařeková, R. et al. LiteMol suite: interactive web-based visualization of large-scale macromolecular structure data. Nat Methods 14, 1121–1122 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4499

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