[BioC] molecular viz tools (eg, PyMol) and R?

[Thomas Girke]

Have you looked into Bio3D in R from Grant et al 
(Bioinformatics 22, 2695-2696). The project URL is:
http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/~bgrant/bio3d/index.html

I am not sure if it provides the exact utilities you are
looking for but it may be worth to take a look.

Best,

Thomas


On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 09:21:26AM -0700, Paul Shannon wrote:
> I have lots of phosphorylation site data, obtained from mass  
> spectrometry, which I manage and explore in R.
> As you'd expect, R has been very handy for finding patterns for these  
> phospho-sites with respect
> to their primary sequence and secondary structure predictions. Many  
> bioc packages have been helpful
> along the way.
> 
> Now I want to explore for patterns in the 3D structure surrounding  
> these phosphorylation sites.
> Do phospho-sites correlate well with surface accessibility?  Inversely  
> with
> hydrophobicity?  With structural loops?  Visual exploration of those  
> sites
> in 3D renderings of their proteins pdb models seems like a good place  
> to start.
> 
> In pursuit of that, I have dabbled with PyMol, DeepView, Chimera, VMD,  
> and Cn3D, all of which -- along
> with other similar tools -- have lots to offer. But so far as I can  
> tell, none have any connection
> to R.
> 
> Is there any 3D-molecular-vizualization companion to R, similar in  
> spirit to rggobi or Rgraphviz?
> Commands like these would be very nice:
> 
>    1) load (<pdb file>)
>    2) select (<list of residues>)
>    3) colorResiduesByProperty (<accessibility|hydrophobicity|..>)
> 
> I suspect that the demand for something like this is too small to  
> justify the
> work -- but if anyone has any advice,  I'd love to hear it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>  - Paul
> 
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