relax is a program designed for the study of the dynamics of proteins or other macromolecules though the analysis of NMR relaxation experiments. It supports exponential curve fitting for the calculation of the R1 and R2 relaxation rates, calculation of the NOE, reduced spectral density mapping, the Lipari and Szabo model-free analysis, study of domain motions via the N-state model and frame order dynamics theories using anisotropic NMR parameters such as RDCs and PCSs, and the investigation of stereochemistry.
| Tags | Scientific |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | C Python |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This is the second version of the relax GUI, and is a major code rewrite. It now functional on GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and MS Windows. In addition to many bugfixes, there are improvements to the frame order theory, N-state model analysis, handling of RDC and PCS values, a number of new user functions for structure creation, displacement, and superimposition and for model-free result visualisation in PyMOL, and a redesign of the auto-analyses to have all input data pre-loaded into a relax data pipe for support of non-protein organic molecules in the dauvergne_protocol auto-analysis.


Release Notes: This is a major feature release. It adds the ability to run relax on clusters or grids of computers via the MPI protocol. This merges in Gary Thompson's multi-processor branch, which was started all the way back in 2007. The "multi" package introduces two processor fabrics, the standard uni-processor mode and the mpi4py mode for using the MPI protocol with Python. The model-free analysis code has been parallelized to take advantage of the multi-processor modes, significantly speeding up calculations on clusters with near perfect scaling efficiency.


Release Notes: This is a major feature release, and all users are recommend to upgrade. The major features include the integration of relax and the BMRB via the reading and writing of the BMRB NMR-STAR format files for model-free analyses, support for reading the XYZ 3D structure files used in organic chemistry, significant GUI improvements, and better support for the Bruker Protein Dynamics Centre (PDC) files. In addition a large number of bugs have been resolved. All together, this is a large release consisting of just under 2000 individual changes.


Release Notes: This is a major feature release that introduces support from reading Bruker Protein Dynamics Centre (PDC) files. It also fixes a bug in the N-state model Q factor values when run in combination with Monte Carlo simulations for error analysis.


Release Notes: This is a major feature release which introduces a new graphical user interface. This GUI provides easy access to a subset of relax's features - the R1 and R2 relaxation rate curve-fitting, NOE calculations, and the fully automatic model-free analysis of the dauvergne_protocol module (d'Auvergne and Gooley, 2008, JBNMR, 40, 121).
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