Improvements in ProMode (a Database of Normal Mode Analyses of Proteins)

摘要

ProMode (http: //promode.socs.waseda.ac.jp/) is a database collecting the results from normal mode analyses (NMA) of various protein molecules. Although NMA is based on the harmonic approximation, it has been shown by many studies that the results from NMA are not only reasonable qualitatively in most cases, but also can provide a proper description of the functionally important motions of the protein. The collection of the NMA results for various proteins is useful for comparative and statistical studies of the dynamic structures of proteins. For further details of the method of NMA and the contents of ProMode, see the reference 3.