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Duke University

Library of rotamers, low-energy side-chain conformations

http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/databases/rotamer.php

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Rotamers are usually defined as low energy side-chain conformations. The use of a library of rotamers allows anyone determining or modeling a structure to try the most likely side-chain conformations, saving time and producing a structure that is more likely to be correct. This is, of course, only the case if the rotamers really are the correct low energy conformations. The library differs from those previously published in a number of ways: It uses only very high resolution structures (1.7 A or better) it removes side chains whose position may be in doubt using a number of filters, it uses the mode rather than the mean of observed conformations (which has a number of advantages), and it removes systematically misfit conformations.
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