vanddraabe: Identification and Statistical Analysis of Conserved Waters Near Proteins

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vanddraabe provides a powerful way to identify and analyze conserved waters within crystallographic protein structures and molecular dynamics simulation trajectories. Statistical parameters for each water cluster, informative graphs, and a PyMOL session file to visually explore the conserved waters and protein are returned. Hydrophilicity is the propensity of waters to congregate near specific protein atoms and is related to conserved waters. An informatics derived set of hydrophilicity values are provided based on a large, high-quality X-ray protein structure dataset.

This package is a reimplementation and expansion of the WatCH1 and PyWATER2 applications and was created to provide the following abilities:

  1. Paul C Sanschagrin and Leslie A Kuhn. Cluster analysis of consensus water sites in thrombin and trypsin shows conservation between serine proteases and contributions to ligand specificity. Protein Science, 1998, 7 (10), pp 2054-2064.
    DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560071002
    PMID: 9792092
    WatCH webpage

  2. Hitesh Patel, Bjorn A. Gruning, Stefan Gunther, and Irmgard Merfort. PyWATER: a PyMOL plug-in to find conserved water molecules in proteins by clustering. Bioinformatics, 2014, 30 (20), pp 2978-2980.
    DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu424
    PMID: 24990608
    PyWATER on GitHub

Installing vanddraabe

vanddraabe is available on GitHub and on CRAN. To install it:

# The easiest way to get vanddraabe is:
install.packages("vanddraabe")

# Or get the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("exeResearch/vanddraabe")

How to use vanddraabe

The vignette provided here is a detailed example of using vanddraabe to identify the conserved waters of ten Thrombin structures.

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Code of conduct

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