SAmBA: An interactive software for optimizing the design of biological macromolecules crystallization experiments
✍ Scribed by Stéphane Audic; Fabrice Lopez; Jean-Michel Claverie; Olivier Poirot; Chantal Abergel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-3585
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✦ Synopsis
SAmBA is a new software for the design of minimal experimental protocols using the notion of orthogonal arrays of strength 2. The main application of SAmBA is the search of protein crystallization conditions. Given a user input defining the relevant effectors/variables (e.g., pH, temperature, salts) and states (e.g., pH: 5, 6, 7 and 8), this software proposes an optimal set of experiments in which all tested variables and the pairwise interactions between them are symmetrically sampled. No a priori restrictions on the number and range of experimental variables is imposed. SAmBA consists of two complementary programs, SAm and BA, using a simulated annealing approach and a backtracking algorithm, respectively. The software is freely available as C code or as an interactive JAVA applet at http:/(/)igs-server.cnrs-mrs.fr.