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• Introduction to CLC Drug Discovery Workbench
  • Contact information
    • Contact for the CLC Drug Discovery Workbench
    • New program feature request
    • Getting help
  • Download and installation
    • Program download
    • Installation on Microsoft Windows
    • Installation on Mac OS X
    • Installation on Linux with an installer
  • System requirements
    • Limitations on maximum number of cores
  • Workbench Licenses
    • Request an evaluation license
    • Download a license using a license order ID
    • Import a license from a file
    • Upgrade license
    • Configure license server connection
    • Download a static license on a non-networked machine
    • Limited mode
    • Start in safe mode
  • When the program is installed: Getting started
    • Quick start
    • Import of example data
  • Plugins
    • Installing plugins
    • Uninstalling plugins
    • Updating plugins
  • Network configuration
• User interface
  • View Area
    • Open view
    • Open additional views with the toolbar
    • History and Info views
    • Close views
    • Save changes in a view
    • Undo/Redo
    • Arrange views in View Area
    • Moving a view to a different screen
    • Side Panel
  • Zoom and selection in View Area
    • Zoom in
    • Zoom out
    • Selecting, panning and zooming
  • Toolbox and Status Bar
    • Processes
    • Toolbox
    • Status Bar
  • Workspace
    • Create Workspace
    • Select Workspace
    • Delete Workspace
• Data management and search
  • Navigation Area
    • Data structure
    • Create new folders
    • Sorting folders
    • Multiselecting elements
    • Moving and copying elements
    • Change element names
    • Delete, restore and remove elements
    • Show folder elements in a table
  • Metadata
    • Importing Metadata
    • Associating data elements with metadata
    • Working with data and metadata
  • Working with tables
    • Filtering tables
  • Customized attributes on data locations
    • Configuring which fields should be available
    • Editing lists
    • Removing attributes
    • Changing the order of the attributes
    • Filling in values
    • What happens when a clc object is copied to another data location?
    • Searching
  • Local search
    • What kind of information can be searched?
    • Quick search
    • Advanced search
    • Search index
• User preferences and settings
  • General preferences
  • View preferences
    • Import and export Side Panel settings
  • Advanced preferences
  • Export/import of preferences
    • The different options for export and import
  • View settings for the Side Panel
    • Saving, removing and applying saved settings
• Printing
  • Selecting which part of the view to print
  • Page setup
  • Print preview
• Import/export of data and graphics
  • Standard import
    • Import using the import dialog
    • Import using drag and drop
    • Import using copy/paste of text
    • External files
  • Import molecules
    • Using the standard importer
    • Using Import Molecules with 3D Coordinates
    • Add Molecules to Molecule Project
    • From the Protein Data Bank
    • BLAST search against the PDB database
    • Import Molecules from SMILES or 2D
    • Copy-paste of SMILES strings
    • Generation of 3D structure on import
    • Import issues
  • Data export
    • Export of folders and multiple elements in CLC format
    • Export of dependent elements
    • The CLC format
    • Backing up data from the CLC Workbench
    • Export of tables
  • Export graphics to files
    • Which part of the view to export
    • Save location and file formats
    • Graphics export parameters
    • Exporting protein reports
  • Export graph data points to a file
  • Copy/paste view output
• Data download
  • Search for structures at NCBI
    • Structure search options
    • Handling of NCBI structure search results
    • Save structure search parameters
  • UniProt (Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL) search
    • UniProt search options
    • Handling of UniProt search results
    • Save UniProt search parameters
  • Sequence web info
• Running tools, handling results and batching
  • Running tools
  • Handling results
  • Batch processing
    • Standard batch processing
    • Batch overview
    • Parameters for batch runs
    • Running the analysis and organizing the results
    • Batch launching workflows with multiple inputs
• Workflows
  • Creating a workflow
    • Adding workflow elements
    • Configuring workflow elements
    • Locking and unlocking parameters
    • Connecting workflow elements
    • Output
    • Input
    • Layout
    • Input modifying tools
    • Workflow validation
    • Workflow creation helper tools
    • Adding to workflows
    • Snippets in workflows
    • Change the order of tracks in the Genome Browser View
  • Distributing and installing workflows
    • Creating a workflow installation file
    • Installing a workflow
    • Managing workflows
    • Workflow identification and versioning
    • Automatic update of workflow elements
  • Executing a workflow
  • Open copy of installed workflow
• Drug design
  • Viewing molecular structures in 3D
    • Moving and rotating
    • Troubleshooting 3D graphics errors
  • Customizing the visualization
    • Visualization styles and colors
    • Project settings
  • Snapshots of the molecule visualization
  • Tools for linking sequence and structure
    • Show sequence associated with molecule
    • Link sequence or sequence alignment to structure
    • Transfer annotations between sequence and structure
  • Protein structure alignment
    • The Align Protein Structure dialog box
    • Example: alignment of calmodulin
    • The Align Protein Structure algorithm
  • Generate Biomolecule
  • Molecule Tables
    • Create Molecule Table
    • Grid view of molecule 2D depictions
    • Viewing Molecule Table structures in 3D
  • Docking Results Tables
  • Editing molecule objects
    • Editing atom and bond properties
    • Converting molecules to Cofactors or Ligands
  • The Protein Optimizer
    • The selection panel
    • The issues panel
    • The modify residue panel
    • The modify surrounding residues panel
    • The visualization panel
    • How side chains are modeled
  • The Ligand Optimizer
    • The 2D depiction panel
    • The issues panel
    • The modify panel
    • The properties & interactions panel
    • The constraints panel
  • Molecular docking
    • Setup Binding Site
    • Ligand docking using the Dock Ligands tool
    • Ligand docking from the Project Tree
    • The docking algorithms
    • Inspecting docking results
  • Screen ligands
  • Improving docking and screening accuracy
    • Docking
    • Screening
    • Protein Target
    • Ligand
    • Screening library
    • Docking simulation
    • Screening simulation
  • Find potential binding pockets
    • The Find Binding Pockets algorithm
  • Calculate molecular properties
    • The log P algorithm
  • Extract ligands
• Viewing and editing sequences
  • View sequence
    • Sequence settings in Side Panel
    • Selecting parts of the sequence
    • Editing the sequence
    • Sequence region types
  • Circular DNA
    • Using split views to see details of the circular molecule
    • Mark molecule as circular and specify starting point
  • Working with annotations
    • Viewing annotations
    • Adding annotations
    • Edit annotations
    • Removing annotations
  • Element information
  • View as text
  • Sequence Lists
• BLAST search
  • Running BLAST searches
    • BLAST at NCBI
    • BLAST a partial sequence against NCBI
    • BLAST against local data
    • BLAST a partial sequence against a local database
  • Output from BLAST searches
    • Graphical overview for each query sequence
    • Overview BLAST table
    • BLAST graphics
    • BLAST HSP table
    • BLAST hit table
  • Extract consensus sequence
  • Local BLAST databases
    • Make pre-formatted BLAST databases available
    • Download NCBI pre-formatted BLAST databases
    • Create local BLAST databases
  • Manage BLAST databases
  • Bioinformatics explained: BLAST
    • Examples of BLAST usage
    • Searching for homology
    • How does BLAST work?
    • Which BLAST program should I use?
    • Which BLAST options should I change?
    • Explanation of the BLAST output
    • I want to BLAST against my own sequence database, is this possible?
    • What you cannot get out of BLAST
    • Other useful resources
• Sequence analyses
  • Find and Model Structure
    • Create structure model
    • Method details
  • Download Find Structure Database
  • Extract sequences
  • Dot plots
    • Create dot plots
    • View dot plots
  • Bioinformatics explained: Dot plots
    • Realization of dot plots
    • Examples and interpretations of dot plots
  • Bioinformatics explained: Scoring matrices
    • Different scoring matrices
    • Use of scoring matrices
  • Sequence statistics
    • Bioinformatics explained: Protein statistics
  • Pattern discovery
    • Pattern discovery search parameters
    • Pattern search output
  • Motif Search
    • Dynamic motifs
    • Motif search from the Toolbox
    • Java regular expressions
  • Create motif list
  • Signal peptide prediction
  • Bioinformatics explained: Prediction of signal peptides
    • Why the interest in signal peptides?
    • Different types of signal peptides
    • Prediction of signal peptides and subcellular localization
    • The SignalP method
    • What do the SignalP scores mean?
  • Transmembrane helix prediction
  • Hydrophobicity
    • Hydrophobicity plot
    • Hydrophobicity graphs along sequence
  • Bioinformatics explained: Protein hydrophobicity
    • Hydrophobicity scales
  • Pfam domain search
    • Download of Pfam database
    • Running Pfam Domain Search
  • Secondary structure prediction
• Sequence alignment
  • Create an alignment
    • Gap costs
    • Fast or accurate alignment algorithm
    • Aligning alignments
    • Fixpoints
  • View alignments
  • Bioinformatics explained: Sequence logo
    • Calculation of sequence logos
  • Edit alignments
    • Move residues and gaps
    • Insert gaps
    • Delete residues and gaps
    • Copy annotations to other sequences
    • Move sequences up and down
    • Delete and rename sequences
    • Delete, rename and add sequences
    • Realignment
  • Pairwise comparison
    • Pairwise comparison on alignment selection
    • Pairwise comparison parameters
    • The pairwise comparison table
  • Bioinformatics explained: Multiple alignments
    • Use of multiple alignments
    • Constructing multiple alignments
  • Phylogenetic tree features
  • Create Trees
    • Create tree
    • Bioinformatics explained
  • Tree Settings
    • Minimap
    • Tree layout
    • Node settings
    • Label settings
    • Background settings
    • Branch layout
    • Bootstrap settings
    • Visualizing metadata
    • Node right click menu
  • Metadata and phylogenetic trees
    • Table Settings and Filtering
    • Add or modify metadata on a tree
    • Undefined metadata values on a tree
    • Selection of specific nodes
• Appendix
  • Use of multi-core computers
  • Graph preferences
  • BLAST databases
    • Peptide sequence databases
    • Nucleotide sequence databases
    • Adding more databases
  • IUPAC codes for amino acids
  • IUPAC codes for nucleotides
  • Formats for import and export
    • List of bioinformatic data formats
    • List of graphics data formats
  • Matrices for alignment calculation
    • PAM30 log-odds matrix
    • PAM60 log-odds matrix
    • BLOSUM42 log-odds matrix
    • BLOSUM62 log-odds matrix
    • BLOSUM80 log-odds matrix
• Bibliography

Plugins

When you install CLC Drug Discovery Workbench, it has a standard set of features. However, you can upgrade and customize the program using a variety of plugins.

As the range of plugins is continuously updated and expanded, they will not be listed here. Instead we refer to http://www.qiagenbioinformatics.com/plugins/ for a full list of plugins with descriptions of their functionalities.

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• Installing plugins
• Uninstalling plugins
• Updating plugins

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