SwS : Solvation web Service for nucleic acids

[auffinger]

Hi Xiang-Jun,

Just visited your 2.0 site. Looks good. Apparently you improved the algorithms for detecting base pairs. Will this change something for us  (with SwS I mean - at http://tatooine.u-strasbg.fr/~sws/SwS.html). Although, since our pre-processor is strongly linked to the 1.5 file formats, we were just wondering if something changed at this level and eventually what type of adaptations would be necessary.

Kind regards,

Pascal

[xiangjun]

Hi Pascal,

Thanks for your nice words about the 3DNA v2.0 website: it is actually not ready for public release yet ...

As you know, I have been continuously improving 3DNA both on its internal algorithm and on the website, based mostly on users' feedback. I have been working/talking about 3DNA v2.0 for quite a while, and hopefully it could be released around the summer.

As regard to the possible impact of v2.0 on your SwS server (or other related tools making use of 3DNA), I am confident to say life can only be better. Of course, some minor changes would be necessary. In due course, I might ask for some pre-release testers from the community. Overall, the design principles still hold solid: the improvements are mostly internal, or with added functionality.

I have created a new section titled "Links to other related resource". You may want to add a post with link to your SwS server. I am hoping other users can help add more links.

Best regards,

Xiang-Jun