2026 February 24 Update: VUStruct is offline

On February 17 (last week), Vanderbilt's ACCRE cluster was to have been upgraded with 3PB of new storage. This critical upgrade is not in production, although we expect resolution within a very few days. Our web server will be returned to service at that point.

Although storage is temporarily constrained, limited runs of VUStruct remain available at Vanderbilt - outside the web input form.

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We shall update this page at least weekly.

Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) Site Prediction

Many proteins function through binding to other proteins partners, and approximately 60% of disease-associated missense mutations have been noted to perturb PPIs(Sahni et al. 2015). Amino acid variants in interaction surfaces could have negligible impact in folding energetics and still be deleterious through disruption of protein binding to usual partners. The ScanNet(Tubiana et al. 2022) machine learning algorithm was trained through analysis of the Dockground(Kundrotas et al. 2020) database of 3D protein-protein interacting structures. Operationally, for each variant position covered by an Alphafold model, we ask ScanNet to predict whether the position participates in a PPI binding surface.

We report any variant position to which ScanNet assigns at least 50% probability of being involved in a PPI.