Contact map visualizer

Type	PyMOL Plugin
Download	plugins/contact_map_visualizer.py
Author(s)	Venkatramanan Krishnamani
License	-
This code has been put under version control in the project Pymol-script-repo

Enhanced version of this plugin is now available at CMPyMOL

The contact map visualizer plugin can link contact map images to the residues in PyMOL in a interactive way. Contact maps are pixel graphics where each protein residue corresponds to one line and one row of pixels. Thus for a 100 residue protein, such a image has 100x100 pixels. A common tool to generate such images is g_mdmat from the gromacs package.

Usage

contact_map_visualizer [ image_file [, selection ]]

Required Dependencies

• pygame
• Tkinter (optional and usually included with PyMOL)
• PIL (optional, for automatically converting XPM images)

Example for installing all dependencies on a Ubuntu like system:

sudo apt-get install python-tk python-imaging python-pygame

Installation

• Navigate to plugins > install
• Locate the downloaded contact_map_visualizer.py file in the dialogbox and select 'OK'
• Quit and Restart 'pymol'

Alternative way: Just run the script, it will provide a command but no menu plugin entry.

Generate Contact Map

Mean contact map of a protein trajectory generated from g_mdmat tool in the Gromacs analysis package.

Use the command g_mdmat from Gromacs analysis package. A typical contact map looks like the figure on the right.

To generate contact map of a single PDB. For example contact map for a PDB from RCSB, use the following command

g_mdmat -f <protein.pdb> -s <protein.pdb> -mean contact-map.xpm

To generate a mean contact map form a protein trajectory

g_mdmat -f <trajectory.pdb> -s <starting-frame.pdb> -mean contact-map.xpm

Screenshot

Copyright

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