A recent article by Wang J., et al. describes the features and applications of iCn3D, NCBI’s web-based 3D viewer (Figure 1), and shows how you can use it for interactive structural analysis.

Wang J, Youkharibache P, Zhang D, Lanczycki CJ, Geer RC, Madej T, Phan L, Ward M, Lu S, Marchler GH, Wang Y, Bryant SH, Geer LY, Marchler-Bauer A. iCn3D, a Web-based 3D Viewer for Sharing 1D/2D/3D Representations of Biomolecular Structures. Bioinformatics. 2019 June 20; pii: btz502. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz502. (PMID: 31218344) 

Figure 1.  NCBI’s web-based structure viewer iCn3D displaying the TP53 structure 1TUP.

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