Roman Laskowski in Janet Thornton's group at University College, UK,
has told me of a `checkserver' mounted by Rob Hooft at Heidelberg, DE,
which performs a number of validation checks on a given structure
(including running Roman's program PROCHECK). This may be of interest
to those of us who want to do statistical and geometric-type analyses
of our protein structure(s) without having to acquire and run loads of
software.
It's available at http://www.embl-heidelberg.de:8400/
Rob Hooft says to tell people on the Course that it's experimental, and
feel free to email him at hooft@embl-heidelberg.de
Unfortunately, it's not so easy to use as I'd hoped, since it requires
that you can run a PERL script on your local machine, which pretty much
limits it to those amongst us using UNIX boxes ;(
I've not yet tried it myself, but would welcome any feedback (to this
list) from those who do get it to run. Some of the output is in the
form of postscript graphs.
Finally, they don't want it overwhelmed, so don't go round your
institution telling all and sundry just yet. Keep it to ourselves for
a bit ;)
But report here on your results.
Best Regards,
Alan Mills at Birkbeck, for vsns-pps,
pps@www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk