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Makeshift: a lightweight software for accessing and analyzing NMR data and protein dynamics

El Nesr, G.; Wayment-Steele, H. K.

2026-08-20 biophysics
10.64898/2026.08.17.745346 bioRxiv
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy yields rich residue-level information on biomolecular dynamics and chemical environments, two frontiers for quantitative predictive methods in biochemistry. Decades of data are publicly archived in the Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB)1, yet in practice, this information remains difficult to access and interpret at scale and within computational workflows. Here we present makeshift, an open-source Python package for accessing, curating, and analyzing NMR datasets. Users can readily retrieve and parse BMRB entries and perform essential analyses such as chemical shift re-referencing, secondary structure propensity prediction, and interpretation of relaxation datasets for dynamics. We re-implemented several widely-used NMR data calculations which were not open-source or available in Python and validated our implementations against the original implementations. By integrating data access, processing, and analysis into a single Python interface, makeshift lowers the barrier for reproducible, scalable analysis and machine learning applications using biomolecular NMR data.

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