MovieMaker: A web server for rapid rendering of protein motions and interactions

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Van Domselaar, G.H.
  • Maiti, R.
  • Wishart, D.S.

• MovieMaker is a web server that allows short (~10 s), downloadable movies of protein motions to be generated. It accepts PDB files or PDB accession numbers as input and automatically calculates, renders and merges the necessary image files to create colourful animations covering a wide range of protein motions and other dynamic processes. Users have the option of animating (i) simple rotation, (ii) morphing between two end-state conformers, (iii) shortscale, picosecond vibrations, (iv) ligand docking, (v) protein oligomerization, (vi) mid-scale nanosecond (ensemble) motions and (vii) protein folding/ unfolding. MovieMaker does not perform molecular dynamics calculations. Instead it is an animation tool that uses a sophisticated superpositioning algorithm in conjunction with Cartesian coordinate interpolation to rapidly and automatically calculate the intermediate structures needed for many of its animations. Users have extensive control over the rendering style, structure colour, animation quality, background and other image features. MovieMaker is intended to be a general-purpose server that allows both experts and non-experts to easily generate useful, informative protein animations for educational and illustrative purposes.MovieMaker is accessible at http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/moviemaker.

• Date created

  2005

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Molecular-dynamics

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3ZZ9M

• License

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