Lemon is a tool for developing benchmarking sets for structural biology software dealing with 3D Macromolecules. It is designed to be fast and flexible, allowing users to quickly query the 3D features of a given collection of 3D structures. To do so, the user writes a C++11 Lambda function which is applied to all the structures selected by the user.
Due to the incredibly fast parsing speed of the MMTF format, Lemon uses this format by default. This helps Lemon query the entire Protein Data Bank under 25 minutes on an 8 core machine.
Lemon is developed to have as few dependencies as possible. You only need a recent C++ compiler which supports C++ and a copy of the Boost Filesystem library. All other dependencies are installed for you by the build system.
git clone https://gitlab.com/chopralab/lemon.git
cd lemon
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make -j 2
The Protein Data Bank is used to test Lemon's capabilites and is the source of the majority of structural biology benchmarking sets. Therefore we have included a script to download the entire PDB archive. It is recommended to use the latest Hadoop sequence files located here.
Currently, the archive takes ~9Gb of space.
Lemon can use create your own idx files using search queries on RCSB and downloading the search result.
To run Lemon, select a program. For example, if one wants to query all the small molecules which interact with SAM, use the following command:
tar xf full.tar /dev/shm/
/path/to/lemon/build/progs/count_sam_small_molecules -w /dev/shm/full -n <number of cores>The results are printed to stdout.
Lemon is © 2018 Chopra Lab and Purdue University. Developed by Jonathan Fine and is available as open source under the terms of the BSD License.