HiTRACE-Web: an online tool for robust analysis of high-throughput capillary electrophoresis

To facilitate the analysis of large-scale high-throughput capillary electrophoresis data, we previously proposed a suite of efficient analysis software named HiTRACE (High Throughput Robust Analysis of Capillary Electrophoresis). HiTRACE has been used extensively for quantitating data from RNA and DNA structure mapping experiments, including mutate-and-map contact inference, chromatin footprinting, the EteRNA RNA design project and other high-throughput applications. However, HiTRACE is based on a suite of command-line MATLAB scripts that requires nontrivial efforts to learn, use, and extend. Here we present HiTRACE-Web, an online version of HiTRACE that includes standard features previously available in the command-line version as well as additional features such as automated band annotation and flexible adjustment of annotations, all via a user-friendly environment. By making use of parallelization, the on-line workflow is also faster than software implementations available to most users on their local computers. Free access: http://hitrace.or

Prospects for de novo phasing with de novo protein models

In a first systematic exploration of phasing with Rosetta de novo models, it is shown that all-atom refinement of coarse-grained models significantly improves both the model quality and performance in molecular replacement with the Phaser software

Atomic accuracy in predicting and designing non-canonical RNA structure

We present a Rosetta full-atom framework for predicting and designing the non-canonical motifs that define RNA tertiary structure, called FARFAR (Fragment Assembly of RNA with Full Atom Refinement). For a test set of thirty-two 6-to-20-nucleotide motifs, the method recapitulated 50% of the experimental structures at near-atomic accuracy. Additionally, design calculations recovered the native sequence at the majority of RNA residues engaged in non-canonical interactions, and mutations predicted to stabilize a signal recognition particle domain were experimentally validated