Question

Which of the following is wrong about Swiss-PDB Viewer?

(a) It is a structure viewer for multiple platforms

(b) It is a structure viewer for single platforms

(c) It is essentially a Swiss-Army knife for structure visualization and modeling

(d) It is capable of structure visualization, analysis, and homology modeling

This question was addressed to me during a job interview.

I would like to ask this question from Protein Structural Visualization topic in portion Structural Bioinformatics of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) It is a structure viewer for single platforms

The best I can explain: It is essentially a Swiss-Army knife for structure visualization and modeling because it incorporates so many functions in a small shareware program. It allows display of multiple structures at the same time in different styles, by charge distribution, or by surface accessibility. It can measure distances, angles, and even mutate residues. In addition, it can calculate molecular surface, electrostatic potential, Ramachandran plot, and so on. The homology modeling part includes energy minimization and loop modeling.