Rosettascripts: A scripting language interface to the Rosetta Macromolecular modeling suite

  • Sarel J. Fleishman
  • , Andrew Leaver-Fay
  • , Jacob E. Corn
  • , Eva Maria Strauch
  • , Sagar D. Khare
  • , Nobuyasu Koga
  • , Justin Ashworth
  • , Paul Murphy
  • , Florian Richter
  • , Gordon Lemmon
  • , Jens Meiler
  • , David Baker

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Abstract

Macromolecular modeling and design are increasingly useful in basic research, biotechnology, and teaching. However, the absence of a user-friendly modeling framework that provides access to a wide range of modeling capabilities is hampering the wider adoption of computational methods by non-experts. RosettaScripts is an XML-like language for specifying modeling tasks in the Rosetta framework. RosettaScripts provides access to protocol-level functionalities, such as rigid-body docking and sequence redesign, and allows fast testing and deployment of complex protocols without need for modifying or recompiling the underlying C++ code. We illustrate these capabilities with RosettaScripts protocols for the stabilization of proteins, the generation of computationally constrained libraries for experimental selection of higher-affinity binding proteins, loop remodeling, small-molecule ligand docking, design of ligand-binding proteins, and specificity redesign in DNA-binding proteins.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere20161
JournalPloS one
Volume6
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

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