Friday 30 September 2011

Program announcement: Nautilus


From: Kevin Cowtan

Here's an alpha release of my nucleic acid model building program for the early adopters among you to try out. There's no GUI, there's only a Linux binary for now, the features are rather limited, and it's only been tested on synthetic data. On the other hand, it seems to work for me.

Feedback would be very welcome. Please try it out if you can and send me the logfile (with filenames and cell parameters redacted if you prefer). Anything it builds, you get to keep.

It is available from here:
http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/nautilus/nautilus.html

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'Nautilus' is a program for automatic model building of nucleotide
structures in electron density maps. It will trace a map with no model,
extend an existing model, or add nucleotide chains to an existing
non-nucleotide model.

'nautilus' does not currently perform refinement - you will need to
refine and recycle for further model building yourself. Neither does
it assign sequence - the model is built as ploy-U.

This is an alpha release. It may not work at all. It has only
been tested on synthetic data with simulated errors.
The API will change significantly in subsequent releases.

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