Creating figures of protein domains using drawProteins

Protein visualization is a powerful tool in bioinformatics that allows researchers to explore the structure and function of proteins. Visualizing proteins in two dimensions can help researchers understand and compare the domain structures of different proteins, which can reveal similarities and differences that may be important for understanding their function. This can be particularly useful in the study of evolutionary relationships between proteins.

In this recipe, we’ll look at a package called drawProteins that can create two-dimensional renders of proteins and their domains. The package seems to have been designed to work best with Uniprot data as input, but we’ll look at setting up data so that you can use protein and domain information from any source.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need the drawProteins Bioconductor package. We’ll generate the sample data in the code as understanding...