The plugins for in silico drug development LiSiCA GUI, ProBiS H2O and ProBiS H2O MD are plugins for the PyMOL program. PyMOL is one of the most widely used tools for 3D molecular visualization. With recent updates to PyMOL, the requirements for its plugins have changed, which are the change of the required programming language from Python 2 to Python 3 and the change of the required graphical user interface toolkit from Tcl/Tk to PyQt. Due to these changes, it is not possible to run and use the LiSiCA GUI, ProBiS H2O and ProBiS H2O MD plugins. We have decided to rewrite them per PyMOL’s requirements and add new features where appropriate. With the LiSiCA GUI plug-in, both in silico 2D and 3D virtual screening, based on the Tanimoto index, can be performed again; with the ProBiS H2O plug-in, the analysis of preserved waters on the structure of an analysed protein with respect to the structures of similar proteins is again enabled; with the ProBiS H2O MD plug-in, the analysis of preserved waters on the structure of an analysed protein with respect to the changed 3D structures during a trajectory, obtained by the molecular dynamics of this protein, is possible. To unify the LiSiCA GUI, ProBiS H2O and ProBiS H2O MD plug-ins, we have also developed a new InsilabGUI plug-in that contains these three plug-ins, which facilitates and simplifies their installation and mutual use for in silico development.
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