Usage of Complex Builder GUI

How to use SbiRandM from the Graphical User Interface

How to invoke and use the Graphical interface

SbiRandM has a Graphical User Interface, that will help the user not to battle against command line.

The first thing we need to do is to summon Python from the terminal

$ python3

Then, once inside Python3, we will import the GUI with the next command

import sbiRandM.mainWindow as GUI

And we summon the GUI as this:

GUI.exe()

This will open the Graphical User Interface for the SbiRandM Complex Generator, which is the next one:

Main Window of the program.

The program gives feedback to the user all the time using the terminal. You can use the buttons browse PDB, browse Fasta, and Select Output, to select the path with the pairwise PDB interactions, the fasta file of the complex, and the output folder for the generated complex respectively.

You can also select if the algorithm used for the program is a Superimposition-based approach or a Modeling-based approach. We recommend you to use Superimposition based approach.

Also, there is a checkbutton indicating if you want to have verbosity output, giving more information during the process.

Once all the fields have been filled, you can click the Run! button to start the process. The feedback is given by the terminal.

Process of generating a complex protein with the SbiRandM GUI

The resulting complex can be found in the selected output folder, and opened with your favorite structure visualizer.

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