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Visualization of protein molecular structures is a very important part of the analysis of protein function and activity. Visualization tools allow to represent graphically the complex construction of proteins and give us an idea of the biological molecules built with hundreds or thousands of atoms linked to each other by covalent bonds. In the chapter we present the most interesting features of our Protein Molecular Viewer (PMV). The PMV is a molecular visualization tool which is used to show protein structures loaded from the well-known Protein Data Bank. With the possibility of loading and presenting protein structures from the PDBML data format the PMV becomes one of a few tools in the world having this unique function.
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Mrozek, D., Mastej, A., Małysiak, B. (2008). Protein Molecular Viewer for Visualizing Structures Stored in the PDBML Format. In: Pietka, E., Kawa, J. (eds) Information Technologies in Biomedicine. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68168-7_42
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