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Drawing Schematic Of Protein-Protein Interactions

Hey there, has anybody seen any good ways to visualize specific protein-protein interactions? the only method I was able to find is a LigPlot+ tool called DIMPLOT. Though this is pretty close to what i want, i was wondering if there are any other know tools. Perhaps a way to display amino-acids as beads instead of actual 2d structure. These surfaces can get pretty complicated.

DIMPLOT

visualization amino-acids

You can use pymol to show 3D structural interactions.

yes i'm aware of that, but i'm looking for a schematic-way, a simplified view. 3d views of surfaces can get complicated.

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A very schematic diagram can be generated with the pdbsum generate page.

can you please point me to the output? i submitted an example on the site, but still waiting for results to be emailed.

If you enter a valid pdb code, you will see the output for it. If you upload your complex, you should have the output for it.

If this is what you wanted, upvote the answer please.

Maybe Interactome3D is helpful.

it's good for showing networks of protein-protein interactions, but not specific interactions, on amino-acid level.

cytoscape

that's not exactly what i'm requesting. I'm not interested in representing networks of protein interactions, but protein-protein surfaces, with specific amino-acids contacts.

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