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Autodock VinaXB for molecular docking of protein complexes containing halogen bonding interactions

Molecular docking is the most widely used technique which is used to…

Tariq Abdullah

How to blast against a particular set of local sequences (local database)?

BLAST is a local alignment tool widely used as a preliminary step…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

How to cluster peptide/protein sequences using cd-hit software?

Cd-hit is one of the most widely used programs to cluster biological…

Tariq Abdullah

Most widely used tools to analyze multiple sequence alignments

Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are quite valuable in terms of studying new…

Tariq Abdullah

Installing MODELLER on Linux/Ubuntu

MODELLER is a software package that is used to predict protein three-dimensional…

Tariq Abdullah

Video tutorial: How to install Autodock Vina on Ubuntu?

This is a video tutorial of Autodock Vina installation on Ubuntu, based on…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

How to perform blind docking using AutoDock Vina?

Blind docking is done when the catalytic/binding residues are unknown in a…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

How to calculate dN, dS, and dN/dS ratio on a set of genes using MEGA?

If you want to get a quick idea about the non-synonymous vs…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Installing Roary and Prokka on Ubuntu

In the last article on Bioinformatics Review, the utilization of Roary and…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

How to create a pangenome of isolated genome sequences using Roary and Prokka?

Roary is a pangenome genome pipeline, which calculates pangenome of a set…

Tariq Abdullah

How to do molecular orbital analysis to find d-orbitals involved in bonding in an organometallic compound?

Structure modeling of chemical compounds finds essential application in the field of…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Bioinformatics and stem cell research- A mini review

Stem cells are cells that can be differentiated into other types and…

Shiv Sanjeevi Sripathi

Web-based tools for protein-peptide docking

Protein-protein interactions are considered necessary in interactome analysis as they play an…

Tariq Abdullah

Video Tutorial: How to perform docking using Autodock Vina

This is a video added to our existing tutorial

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Most widely used tools for phylogenetic tree customization

Most of the times, it is a very tedious job to convert…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

A new high-level Python interface for MD simulation using GROMACS

The roots of the molecular simulation application can be traced back to…

Tariq Abdullah

Simulated sequence alignment software: An alternative to MSA benchmarks

In our previous article, we discussed different multiple sequence alignment (MSA) benchmarks…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

How to perform protein structure modeling using I-Tasser stand-alone tool?

I-Tasser stands for the iterative threading assembly refinement is a well-known tool…

Tariq Abdullah

Intrinsically disordered proteins’ predictors and databases: An overview

Intrinsically unstructured proteins (IUPs) are the natively unfolded proteins which must be…

Tariq Abdullah

An introduction to the predictors of pathogenic point mutations

Single nucleotide variation is a change in a single nucleotide in a…

Dr. Muniba Faiza