Installation

The siteinterlock package is compatible with Python 2.7.x and Python 3.2 or newer; the package itself does not require external dependencies or libraries. If you don't already have Python installed on your system, you can find more information on how to obtain and install Python at https://www.python.org/downloads/.

To produce the input files that are required for the SiteInterlock analysis, you will need to have MSU ProFlex installed 1. MSU ProFlex (formerly called FIRST) predicts the rigid and flexible regions in a protein structure, given a Protein Data Bank (PDB) file, including polar hydrogen atoms. You can find more information about obtaining and installing ProFlex at http://kuhnlab.bmb.msu.edu/software/proflex/index.html.

Installing siteinterlock from source

You can obtain the latest, stable release of siteinterlock from GitHub at https://github.com/psa-lab/siteinterlock/releases.

  1. After clicking on the Source code (zip) or Source code (tar.gz) download links, please navigate to your download folder and unpack the source code archive using your preferred archive-tool.
  2. Next, go into the unzipped siteinterlock-master directory, and install the siteinterlock package by executing python setup.py install (inside siteinterlock-master).
  3. You may verify your installation by opening a new terminal and executing the following command: python -c 'import siteinterlock; print(siteinterlock.__version__)', which should print 1.0.0.
  4. Now, you will be able to use the SiteInterlock scripts provided in the scripts/ subdirectory from any location on your local drive.

1 Jacobs, D. J., Rader, A. J., Kuhn, L. A., & Thorpe, M. F. (2001). Protein flexibility predictions using graph theory. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 44(2), 150-165.