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DireX - Low-resolution Structure Refinement



DireX performs efficient geometry-based conformational sampling of protein structures under experimental restraints. It combines prior structural information with experimental data through the Deformable Elastic Network (DEN) approach which drastically reduces over-fitting.

Experimental restraints which can be used in the current version are:

To get a first impression: Watch a movie of fitting Elongation factor 2 (EF-2) into an 8 Å density map.

Aug 8, 2019: New DireX version released (0.7.1):
Added a new turbo mode (use command line argument -turbo), which prevents computing a new model map at each step. The mode uses only the target map as a restraint as does not optimize the overlap of model map and target map. This turbo mode target function is more similar to what is used in MDFF.

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