Research
Prism shares Astera Institute’s commitment to radical transparency. By publishing our work as it happens, we aim to maximize its potential for broad impact and reuse.
All of our research outputs are completely open, exist outside of traditional scientific journals, and aim to be FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
- Data Collection
- and Modeling, General, Biology, and Encoding
The Vision for Prism
Charting the course for dynamic structural biology.
- Blog
- Encoding
Displaying Conformational Heterogeneity in BANDICOOT
In preparation for hierarchical hetereogeneity encoding, BANDICOOT has a new, more intuitive display mode for alternate conformations.
- Blog
- Encoding
mmCIF Explorer and the Heterogeneity Proposal
A playground for the PDBx/mmCIF file exploration, a look at the current proposal for encoding correlated heterogeneity
- Blog
- Encoding
pdbx_hierarchy
Opens on github.com/prism-science/pdbx_hierarchy
Tools for working with hierarchical heterogeneity mmCIF models.
- Code
- Encoding
Encoding Heterogeneity in mmCIF Files
Explicitly encoding hierarchical heterogeneity in mmCIF files
- Blog
- Encoding
- and Modeling
mmcif_encoding
Opens on github.com/prism-science/mmcif_encoding
Examples and descriptions related to mmCIF encoding of hierarchical heterogeneity.
- Code
- Encoding
Ensemble <-> Multiconformer Model Conversion
Converting between ensemble and multiconformer models
- Blog
- Encoding
- and Modeling
Encoding data for a protein dynamics centered AlphaFold
Re-engineer the encoding and infrastructure of structural biology to embrace dynamics
- Blog