SIFTS

The SIFTS module of MIToS allows to obtain the residue-level mapping between databases stored in the SIFTS XML files. It makes easy to assign PDB residues to UniProt/Pfam positions. Given the fact that pairwise alignments can lead to misleading association between residues in both sequences, SIFTS offers more reliable association between sequence and structure residue numbers.

Features

• Download and parse SIFTS XML files

• Store residue-level mapping in Julia

• Easy generation of Dicts between residues numbers

using MIToS.SIFTS

A SIFTSResidue object stores the SIFTS residue level mapping for a residue. It has the following fields that you can access at any moment for query purposes:

- `PDBe` : A `dbPDBe` object, it's present in all the `SIFTSResidue`s.
- `UniProt` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbUniProt` object.
- `Pfam` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbPfam` object.
- `NCBI` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbNCBI` object.
- `InterPro` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbInterPro` object.
- `PDB` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbPDB` object.
- `SCOP` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbSCOP` object.
- `CATH` : A `Nullable` wrapping a `dbCATH` object.
- `missing` : It's `true` if the residue is missing, i.e. not observed, in the structure.
- `sscode` : A string with the secondary structure code of the residue.
- `ssname` : A string with the secondary structure name of the residue.

dbCATH stores the residue id, number, name and chain in CATH as strings.

dbInterPro stores the residue id, number, name and evidence in InterPro as strings.

dbNCBI stores the residue id, number and name in NCBI as strings.

dbPDB stores the residue id, number, name and chain in PDB as strings.

dbPDBe stores the residue number and name in PDBe as strings.

dbPfam stores the residue id, number and name in Pfam as strings.

dbSCOP stores the residue id, number, name and chain in SCOP as strings.

dbUniProt stores the residue id, number and name in UniProt as strings.

parse(document::LightXML.XMLDocument, ::Type{SIFTSXML}; chain=All, missings::Bool=true)

Returns a Vector{SIFTSResidue} parsed from a SIFTSXML file. By default, parses all the chains and includes missings residues.

Download the gzipped SIFTS xml for the pdbcode. The extension of the downloaded file is .xml.gz by default. The filename can be changed, but the .xml.gz at the end is mandatory.

Parses a SIFTS XML file and returns a Dict between residue numbers of two DataBases with the given identifiers. A chain could be specified (All by default). If missings is true (default) all the residues are used, even if they haven’t coordinates in the PDB file.