History of DistanceMap

* the architecture of the protein structure

* the contacts between secondary structure elements

* detection of domains in the structure

* the beauty of protein structures in 2D

Rows are active links providing the residue pop-up menu and can take you to other tools.

==== References ====

Richardson, J.S. (1981) The anatomy and taxonomy of protein structure. Adv. Protein Chem., 34, 167-339.

==== DirectAccessURL ====

Example URL for direct computation of the distance matrix:

http://i.moltalk.org/dist_map/3/PDB/1QMZ/65/18.0/1.5/-1/-1/-1/-1

parameters:

*;toolchain: "dist_map"

*;position: "3"

*;strxsrc: "PDB" or "model"

*;strxid: 4-letter pdb code or model identifier

*;chaincode: ASCII value of chain identifier (A=65, B=66, ' '=32, ...)

*;dthreshold: distance threshold

*;imgscale: scale of image (1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0)

*;hlresfrom: highlight from residue number (+ insertion code)

*;hlresto: highlight to residue number (+ insertion code)

*;clipfrom: clip graphics from residue number (+ insertion code)

*;clipto: clip graphics to residue number (+ insertion code)