BcForms: a toolkit for concretely describing macromolecular complexes
BpForms is a toolkit for unambiguously describing the molecular structure (atoms and bonds) of DNA, RNA, and proteins, including non-canonical monomeric forms (subunits which compose polymers), crosslinks, nicks, and circular topologies. By concretely describing the molecular structure of biopolymers, BpForms aims to help epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, systems biology, and synthetic biology researchers share and integrate information about DNA modification, post-transcriptional modification, post
BpForms includes a grammar for describing biopolymer forms and three consensus alphabets of non-canonical monomeric forms of DNA nucleotide monophosphates, RNA nucleotide monophosphates, and protein amino acids. BpForms also includes four software tools for verifying descriptions of biopolymer forms and calculating properties such as their molecular structure, formula, molecular weight, and charge: this website, a JSON REST API , a command line interface , and a Python API . BpForms is available open-source
BpForms can be combined with BcForms to concretely describe the primary structure of complexes.
BcForms: a toolkit for concretely describing macromolecular complexes