Tired of drawing domain-level complexes by hand? Tired of automatically generated images that are almost exactly like you want them? Try this. The drawdsd library provides an interface to specify the angles of helices, the angles and shapes of loop regions, etc. Are you missing features? Let us know through github issues.
pip install git+https://github.com/bad-ants-fleet/drawdsd.gitA good starting point is the examples directory. You can find a Jupyter notebook examples.ipynb to learn about the most important drawing features. There are also input files that can be visualized using the command line tool drawDSD. It is probably worth looking at the code of this script if you want get started with your own code based on drawdsd. The main function can be found in the file iosetup.py.
Note: For convenience, the drawdsd library uses dsdobjects to translate text-based "kernel notation" input into Python objects. An introduction about kernel notation can be found at the peppercornenumerator project. Importantly, the objects provided by dsdobjects are immutable with respect to certain properties, e.g. the length of a domain cannot be changed, after it has been initialized.
- v0.3: major code update, can draw all pk-free structures, new colors, 3'ends, backbone, etc.
- Provide visualization of unpaired strands. (Currently, an input complex needs at least one paired domain.)
- support pseudoknots.
- support simple reaction scheme.
- strand-based coloring (see examples/complex_peppercorn.png)