wheel-diagram

Plot wheel diagram for alpha-helix.

DEMO

Demonstration for a sequence “LEQLEQDCNDICERMKNVEKDFSN” from formin Fus1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Features

The Kyte and Doolittle’s hydrophobicity is used.
The hydrophobic moment is normalized by the sequence length.

Requirement (validated version)

• Python (3.7.8)
• matplotlib (3.3.1)

Installation

Copy plot_wheel_diagram.py to wherever you like.

Usage

python plot_wheel_diagram.py YOUR_SEQUENCE

Web version is also available here.

Note

Helvetica is specified for default font.
If you have an error, remove font specification.

HTML version is available on the index.html.

Author

• Rikuri Morita
• Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba
• morita@ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp

License

This script is under MIT license.