VISTAL

VISTAL is a two-dimensional visualization tool for structural alignments. It describes structures as a series of secondary structure elements, and places matched residues, one on top of each other, colored according to the three-dimensional distance of their Ca atoms.

Download

Click here to download VISTAL.

Example

VISTAL view without wrapping of alignment (multiple images).

We display the images in a table, side by side. Source:

[[Image:ska_mult.1.jpg]]
[[Image:ska_mult.2.jpg]]
[[Image:ska_mult.3.jpg]]
[[Image:ska_mult.4.jpg]]

[[Image:ska_mult.5.jpg]]

VISTAL view with wrapping of alignment.

Reference

Kolodny, R. and Honig, B. (2006) VISTAL – A New 2D Visualization Tool of Protein 3D Structural Alignments. Bioinformatics 22:2166-2167.

Acknowledgments

VISTAL is supported by a funding from the National Institutes of Health Grant # GM30518 and GM074958.

Developed in the Honig Lab

Questions

For questions related to VISTAL, contact honig_software@c2b2.columbia.edu.