Ramachandran plot
Diagrama de Ramachandran
- Date
- 1963 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Credited to
- G. N. Ramachandran, C. Ramakrishnan and V. Sasisekharan
- People
- 👤 G. N. Ramachandran1922–2001
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Graph of the two backbone torsion angles of each amino acid showing which combinations avoid atomic clashes. It is used worldwide to validate protein structures.
What it led to
- validation of structures in the Protein Data Bank
- protein prediction and design