Fodis: software for protein unfolding analysis

Abstract

The folding dynamics of proteins at the single molecule level has been studied with single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) experiments for twenty years, but a common standardized method for the analysis of the collected data and for the sharing among the scientific community members is still not available. We have developed a new open source tool, Fodis, for the analysis of the Force-distance curves obtained in SMFS experiments, providing an almost automatic processing, analysis and classification of the obtained data. Our method provides also a classification of the possible unfolding pathways and structural heterogeneity, present during the unfolding of proteins.