CapiPy: python-based GUI-application to assist in protein immobilization.

Abstract

Protein immobilization, while widespread to unlock enzyme potential in biocatalysis, remains tied to a trial an error approach. Nonetheless, several databases and computational methods have been developed for protein characterization and their study. CapiPy is a user-friendly application for protein model creation and subsequent analysis with a special focus on the ease of use and interpretation of the results to help the users to make an informed decision on the immobilization approach which should be ideal for a protein of interest. The package has been tested with three separate random sets of 150 protein sequences from Uniprot with more than a 70% overall success rate (see Supplementary information and Supplementary Dataset). The package is free to use under the GNU General Public License v3.0. All necessary files can be downloaded from https://github.com/drou0302/CapiPy or https://pypi.org/project/CapiPy/. All external requirements are also freely available, with some restrictions for non-academic users. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.