RNArtist allows you to design your RNA 2D structures interactively. To help you to be an RNArtist, this tool provides numerous graphical options to find your theme and to modify the 2D layout.
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- Any part of an RNA 2D can have different design, from single residues to entire branches
- RNArtist provides an interactive editor to load, modify and paint your 2D using the RNArtistCore language
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- P4-P6 domain in RNArtist linked to UCSF chimera. You can easily apply colors in your 2D to the 3D architecture.
- tRNA crystal structure in RNArtist linked to UCSF chimera.
- RNArtist embeds its own drawing algorihtm. Rough output for the yeast LSU RNA (more than 3200 nts, PDBID: 4V7R), with and without long-range tertiary interactions displayed.
Prerequisites
You need the tool maven and a Java distribution to be installed (type the commands mvn and java from a command line to check).
On Linux Systems, you can install maven with the command sudo apt get install maven
RNArtist has been developed with OpenJDK 15. To compile it with OpenJDK 11 (the most recent Long Term Support version available on computers), you just need to change the value of the property java.version in the pom file.
Installation
Download the project as a zip file or with the command git (git clone https://github.com/fjossinet/RNArtist.git).
From the project directory, type:
mvn clean package
Launch
Using Maven
From the project directory, type:
mvn exec:exec
Using the launch scripts directly
From the subdirectory target/RNArtist, run the file for your operating system by typing:
./launch_rnartist_for_...
You can find more details about this project on my Twitter Account