In this article. we are creating a pie chart of the docking score of five different compounds docked with the same protein. (more…)

With the new year, we are going to start with a very simple yet complicated topic (for beginners) in bioinformatics. In this tutorial, we provide a simple code to plot swarm boxplot using matplotlib and seaborn. (more…)

Previously, we provided a similar script to download ligand SMILES from PDB ligand IDs. In this article, we are downloading PDB ligand structures from their corresponding IDs. (more…)

Fetching SMILE strings for a given number of SDF files of chemical compounds is not such a trivial task. We can quickly obtain them using RDKit or OpenBabel. But what if you don’t have SDF files of ligands in the first place? All you have is Ligand IDs from PDB. If they are a few then you can think of downloading SDF files manually but still, it seems time-consuming, especially when you have multiple compounds to work with. Therefore, we provide a Python script that will read all Ligand IDs and fetch their SDF files, and will finally convert them into SMILE strings. (more…)

In this article, we will obtain the secondary structure of multiple PDB files present in a directory using DSSP [1]. You need to have DSSP installed on your system. (more…)

Previously, we have provided the vs_analysis.py script to analyze virtual screening (VS) results obtained from Autodock Vina. In this article, we have provided another script to search for binding affinity associated with a compound. (more…)

In this article, we provide a simple Python script to download files from an FTP server using Python. (more…)

VMD allows converting PDB to PSF format but sometimes it gives multiple errors. Therefore, in this article, we are going to convert PDB into PSF format using a different method. (more…)

As mentioned in some of our previous articles, RDKit provides a wide range of functions. In this article, we are using RDKit [1] to draw a molecular structure using SMILES. (more…)

Data preprocessing is a foremost and essential step in clustering based on machine learning methods. It removes noise and provides better results. In this article, we are going to discuss the steps involved in data preprocessing using MATLAB [1]. (more…)

RDKit [1] allows performing multiple functions on chemical compounds. One is the quantitative estimation of drug-likeness also known as QED properties. These properties include molecular weight (MW), octanol-water partition coefficient (ALOGP), number of hydrogen bond donors (HBD), number of hydrogen bond acceptors (HBA), polar surface area (PSA), number of rotatable bonds (ROTB), number of aromatic rings (AROM), structural alerts (ALERTS). (more…)

You can obtain SMILES of multiple compounds or ligands in an SDF file in one go. Here, we provide a simple Python script to do that. (more…)

We previously provided a Python script to calculate the Tanimoto similarities of multiple compounds against each other. In this article, we are providing another Python script to calculate the Tanimoto similarities of one compound with multiple compounds. (more…)

RDKit [1] is a very nice cheminformatics software. It allows us to perform a wide range of operations on chemical compounds/ ligands. We have provided a Python script to perform fingerprinting using Tanimoto similarity on multiple compounds using RDKit. (more…)

In this article, we are providing a few commands that are used to commit changes to GitHub repositories using VS code terminal.

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Previously, we have provided a tutorial on using dssp_parser to extract all helices including long and short separately. Now, we have provided a new python script to find the first and last residue in each helix file. (more…)

The x, y, and z coordinates of atoms are provided in the PDB file. One way to extract them is by using the Biopython package [1]. In this article, we will extract coordinates of C-alpha atoms for each residue from the PDB file using Biopython. (more…)

A new Python package named ‘dssp_parser‘ is developed to parse DSSP files. This package fetches all helices including long and short ones from DSSP files. (more…)

Here is a Python script that helps you calculate the center of mass of a protein using the Pymol [1]. (more…)

Previously, we have provided a Python script (vs_analysis.py) to analyze the virtual screening (VS) results of Autodock Vina. Now, we have updated this script to sort binding affinities based on user inputted cutoff value. (more…)