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FR3D stands for "Find RNA 3D" and is commonly pronounced "Fred". It was developed to find small RNA motifs (two to 20 nucleotides) in PDB files. It is available in two forms, as Matlab code that has been tested on the PC, Macintosh, and UNIX, and as a PC executable version that does not require a Matlab license. Releases, features, and known bugs are listed chronologically at the bottom of this page.
User's manual: (3 MB) Describes how to install the Matlab code and the PC executable version, how to start FR3D, and how to conduct searches. In order to run the PC executable version, you will need the Matlab MCR installer (150 MB).
Documentation: Describes each Matlab program in FR3D and displays the dependency between them. Matlab users can run additional programs to analyze basepairs.
Additional PDB files are available at the RCSB Protein Data Bank
Requests for information and bug reports should be sent to Craig L. Zirbel at 
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By downloading the software, you implicitly agree to the terms of use.
When displaying candidates, one can order them by centrality or by geometric similarity. One can navigate through the candidates using a graphical display of the discrepancies between candidates. FR3D now classifies base-phosphate interactions, and one can specify base-phosphate interactions in searches. One can also specify whether an interaction should be nested or long-range. The user's manual, however, is out of date.
Basepairing categories have been updated. Many bugs have been fixed. The Starter package contains the right file and directory structure, plus the Matlab source code and PC executable. Visit http://rna.bgsu.edu/FR3D/PrecomputedData to download analyzed files from many PDB files. They should be stored in FR3D/PrecomputedData.
Base-phosphate interactions have been added; they are coded BP or PB in the search boxes. The previous alignment bug has been fixed. A bug in the August 16, 2007 version has been fixed.
The starter package makes it easier for first-time users to download FR3D and start using it. A new option has been added to the Display Candidates menu, the ability to make scatterplots of the parameters describing pairs of nucleotides in the candidates. Known bugs: the alignment of candidates is sometimes incorrect; figure windows sometimes have incorrect names.
Substantial changes have been made. The basepairing criteria have been updated. FR3D now stores small versions of analyzed files to reduce memory usage and decrease startup time. The user can create lists of PDB files to more easily manage searches. Many additional symbolic constraints are allowed. The listing of candidates makes it easier to spot local and composite motifs, and to identify conserved features between candidates. Additional display features allow sorting candidates by centrality, grouping them into clusters, and showing an alignment of the nucleotides in the candidates. There is now a User's manual and other documentation.
A PC executable version is now provided; see links above. Users may make and maintain lists of PDB files to search. To do so, make a text file called MyList_list.pdb with the name (no extension) of each PDB file on a separate line, then save it in the folder PDBFiles. Bugs noted in the previous release have been fixed. Bugs: 1. With the PC executable, you cannot copy the list of candidates found from the console window. 2. With the PC executable, you cannot "View Query" by checking the checkbox on the GUI.
A graphical user interface (GUI), written by Ali Mokdad, has been added. The program is more stable. Facilities have been added to mark candidates, to group them, to sort them by centrality to find a centroid, to produce a motif alignment, and to write them to a PDB file. NMR files are handled by spacing each version of the structure by 1000 Angstroms to prevent "interactions" between different copies of the same structure. Bugs: 1. The query motif must be from the first chain in the file. 2. Only query motifs of 9 nucleotides or smaller can be used.
April 6, 2006 - Matlab code and one PDB file
Run the program FR3D and follow the directions in its header line.
Last modified 2009-08-05 / 