MMLigner: Yasara plugin

A plugin to enable the use of the MMLigner pairwise structural alignment program from within Yasara. Web address of the MMligner site to download the program: http://lcb.infotech.monash.edu.au/mmligner/

Please cite the article when publishing results from this plugin: J. H. Collier, L. Allison, A. M. Lesk, P. J. Stuckey, M. Garcia de la Banda & A. S. Konagurthu Statistical inference of protein structural alignments using information and compression Bioinformatics. 33(7):1005-1013.

Installation:

1. Download the binary of MMligner from http://lcb.infotech.monash.edu.au/mmligner/
2. Save it in a folder of your choice
3. Download the plugin and unzip it in the yasara installation folder/plg folder.
4. Start YASARA
5. Load any PDB file into YASARA
6. Configure the MMligner plugin via Analyse > Align > Configure MMligner plugin
7. Select the binary MMligner in the subsequent dialogue

How to use:

1. Load two PDD files into YASARA
2. Align the structures via Analyse > Align > Molecules with MMligner
3. Select the target structure you would like to align the other molecule onto
4. Select the second structure
5. Wait until the alignment has succeeded

Authors:

James Collier, Alexander Botzki. VIB

LICENSE:

GPLv3+