| Protein identification and characterization |
| Identification and characterization with peptide mass fingerprinting data |
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| Identification and characterization with MS/MS data |
- Popitam
- Identification and characterization tool for peptides with unexpected modifications (e.g. post-translational modifications or mutations) by tandem mass spectrometry
- Phenyx
- Protein and peptide identification/characterization from MS/MS data from GeneBio, Switzerland
- Mascot - Sequence query and MS/MS ion search from Matrix Science Ltd., London
- OMSSA - MS/MS peptide spectra identification by searching libraries of known protein sequences
- PepFrag - Search known protein sequences with peptide fragment mass information from Rockefeller and NY Universities [or from Genomic Solutions]
- ProteinProspector - UCSF tools for fragment-ion masses data (MS-Tag, MS-Seq, MS-Product, etc.)
- SearchXLinks - Analysis of mass spectra of modified, cross-linked, and digested proteins whose amino acid sequence is known, from Caesar, Germany
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| Identification with isoelectric point, molecular weight and/or amino acid composition |
- AACompIdent
- Identify a protein by its amino acid composition
- AACompSim
- Compare the amino acid composition of a UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entry with all other entries
- TagIdent
- Identify proteins with isoelectric point (pI), molecular weight (Mw) and sequence tag, or generate a list of proteins close to a given pI and Mw
- MultiIdent
- Identify proteins with isoelectric point (pI), molecular weight (Mw), amino acid composition, sequence tag and peptide mass fingerprinting data
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| Other prediction or characterization tools |
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| Other tools for 2-DE or MS data (vizualisation, analysis, etc.) |
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| Similarity searches |
- Fasta3
- FASTA version 3 at the EBI
- FDF - Smith/Waterman type searches on Paracel's Fast Data Finder (FDF) at EMBnet-CH
- MPsrch
- Smith/Waterman sequence comparison at EBI
- PropSearch - Structural homolog search using a 'properties' approach at Montpellier
- SAMBA
- Systolic Accelerator for Molecular Biological Applications
- SAWTED
- Structure Assignment With Text Description
- Scanps
- Similarity searches using Barton's algorithm
- SEQUEROME
- BLAST similarity search and sequence profiling at Georgetown University
- SHOPS
- Analysis of the genomic operon context for any group of proteins
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| Post-translational modification prediction |
- ChloroP
- Prediction of chloroplast transit peptides
- LipoP
- Prediction of lipoproteins and signal peptides in Gram negative bacteria
- MITOPROT
- Prediction of mitochondrial targeting sequences
- PATS
- Prediction of apicoplast targeted sequences
- PlasMit
- Prediction of mitochondrial transit peptides in Plasmodium falciparum
- Predotar
- Prediction of mitochondrial and plastid targeting sequences
- PTS1
- Prediction of peroxisomal targeting signal 1 containing proteins
- SignalP
- Prediction of signal peptide cleavage sites
- DictyOGlyc - Prediction of GlcNAc O-glycosylation sites in Dictyostelium
- NetCGlyc - C-mannosylation sites in mammalian proteins
- NetOGlyc - Prediction of O-GalNAc (mucin type) glycosylation sites in mammalian proteins
- NetGlycate - Glycation of epsilon amino groups of lysines in mammalian proteins
- NetNGlyc - Prediction of N-glycosylation sites in human proteins
- OGPET - Prediction of O-GalNAc (mucin-type) glycosylation sites in eukaryotic
(non-protozoan) proteins
- YinOYang - O-beta-GlcNAc attachment sites in eukaryotic protein sequences
- big-PI Predictor
- GPI Modification Site Prediction
- DGPI
- Prediction of GPI-anchor and cleavage sites (Mirror site)
- GPI-SOM
- Identification of GPI-anchor signals by a Kohonen Self Organizing Map
- Myristoylator
- Prediction of N-terminal myristoylation by neural networks
- NMT
- Prediction of N-terminal N-myristoylation
- CSS-Palm - Palmitoylation site prediction with CSS
- PrePS
- Prenylation Prediction Suite
- NetAcet
- Prediction of N-acetyltransferase A (NatA) substrates (in yeast and mammalian proteins)
- NetPhos
- Prediction of Ser, Thr and Tyr phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic
proteins
- NetPhosK - Kinase specific phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteins
- NetPhosYeast - Serine and threonine phosphorylation sites in yeast proteins
- Sulfinator
- Prediction of tyrosine sulfation sites
- SulfoSite - Prediction of tyrosine sulfation sites
- SUMOplot
- Prediction of SUMO protein attachment sites
- TermiNator - Prediction of N-terminal modification
- NetPicoRNA
- Prediction of protease cleavage sites in picornaviral proteins
- NetCorona - Coronavirus 3C-like proteinase cleavage sites in proteins
- ProP - Arginine and lysine propeptide cleavage sites in eukaryotic protein sequences
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| Topology prediction |
- NetNES Leucine-rich nuclear export signals (NES) in eukaryotic proteins
- PSORT
- Prediction of protein subcellular localization
- SecretomeP - Non-classical and leaderless secretion of proteins
- TargetP
- Prediction of subcellular location
- TatP - Twin-arginine signal peptides
- DAS
- Prediction of transmembrane regions in prokaryotes using the Dense Alignment Surface method (Stockholm University)
- HMMTOP
- Prediction of transmembrane helices and topology of proteins (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
- PredictProtein - Prediction of transmembrane helix location and topology (Columbia University)
- SOSUI
- Prediction of transmembrane regions (Nagoya University, Japan)
- TMAP
- Transmembrane detection based on multiple sequence alignment (Karolinska Institut; Sweden)
- TMHMM
- Prediction of transmembrane helices in proteins (CBS; Denmark)
- TMpred
- Prediction of transmembrane regions and protein orientation (EMBnet-CH)
- TopPred
- Topology prediction of membrane proteins (France)
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| Primary structure analysis |
- ProtParam
- Physico-chemical parameters of a protein sequence (amino-acid and atomic compositions, isoelectric point, extinction coefficient, etc.)
- Compute pI/Mw
- Compute the theoretical isoelectric point (pI) and molecular weight (Mw) from a UniProt Knowledgebase entry or for a user sequence
- ScanSite pI/Mw
- Compute the theoretical pI and Mw, and multiple phosphorylation states
- MW, pI, Titration curve
- Computes pI, composition and allows to see a titration curve
- Radar
- De novo repeat detection in protein sequences
- REP
- Searches a protein sequence for repeats
- REPRO
- De novo repeat detection in protein sequences
- TRUST
- De novo repeat detection in protein sequences
- XSTREAM - De novo tandem repeat detection and architecture modeling in protein sequences
- SAPS
- Statistical analysis of protein sequences at EMBnet-CH [Also available at
EBI]
- Coils
- Prediction of coiled coil regions in proteins (Lupas's method) at EMBnet-CH [Also available at
PBIL]
- Paircoil
- Prediction of coiled coil regions in proteins (Berger's method)
- Paircoil2 - Prediction of the parallel coiled coil fold from sequence using pairwise residue probabilitis with the Paircoil algorithm.
- Multicoil
- Prediction of two- and three-stranded coiled coils
- 2ZIP
- Prediction of Leucine Zippers
- PESTfind
- Identification of PEST regions at EMBnet Austria
- HLA_Bind
- Prediction of MHC type I (HLA) peptide binding
- PEPVAC
- Prediction of supertypic MHC binders
- RANKPEP
- Prediction of peptide MHC binding
- SYFPEITHI
- Prediction of MHC type I and II peptide binding
- ProtScale
- Amino acid scale representation (Hydrophobicity, other conformational parameters, etc.)
- Drawhca
- Draw an HCA (Hydrophobic Cluster Analysis) plot of a protein sequence
- Protein Colourer
- Tool for coloring your amino acid sequence
- Three To One and One to Three
- Tools to convert a three-letter coded amino acid sequence to single letter code and vice versa
- Three-/one-letter amino acid converter - tool which converts amino acid codes from three-letter to one-letter and vice versa.
- Colorseq
- Tool to highlight (in red) a selected set of residues in a protein sequence
- HelixWheel /
HelixDraw
- Representations of a protein fragment as a helical wheel
- RandSeq
- Random protein sequence generator
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| Secondary structure prediction |
- AGADIR
- An algorithm to predict the helical content of peptides
- APSSP
- Advanced Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Server
- GOR - Garnier et al, 1996
- HNN - Hierarchical Neural Network method (Guermeur, 1997)
- Jpred
- A consensus method for protein secondary structure prediction at University of Dundee
- JUFO
- Protein secondary structure prediction from sequence (neural network)
- nnPredict
- University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
- Porter
- University College Dublin
- PredictProtein
- PHDsec, PHDacc, PHDhtm, PHDtopology, PHDthreader, MaxHom, EvalSec from Columbia University
- Prof
- Cascaded Multiple Classifiers for Secondary Structure Prediction
- PSA
- BioMolecular Engineering Research Center (BMERC) / Boston
- PSIpred
- Various protein structure prediction methods at Brunel University
- SOPMA - Geourjon and Deléage, 1995
- SSpro
- Secondary structure prediction using bidirectional recurrent neural networks at University of California
- DLP-SVM - Domain linker prediction using SVM at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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| Tertiary structure |
| Tertiary structure analysis |
- iMolTalk
- An Interactive Protein Structure Analysis Server
- MolTalk
- A computational environment for structural bioinformatics
- Seq2Struct
- A web resource for the identification of sequence-structure links
- STRAP
- A structural alignment program for proteins
- TLSMD
- TLS (Translation/Libration/Screw) Motion Determination
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| Tertiary structure prediction |
Comparative modeling
- SWISS-MODEL
- An automated knowledge-based protein modelling server
- 3Djigsaw
- Three-dimensional models for proteins based on homologues of known structure
- CPHmodels
- Automated neural-network based protein modelling server
- ESyPred3D
- Automated homology modeling program using neural networks
- Geno3d
- Automatic modelling of protein three-dimensional structure
- SDSC1
- Protein Structure Homology Modeling Server
Threading
- 3D-PSSM
- Protein fold recognition using 1D and 3D sequence profiles coupled with secondary structure information (Foldfit)
- Fugue
- Sequence-structure homology recognition
- HHpred
- Protein homology detection and structure prediction by HMM-HMM comparison
- Libellula
- Neural network approach to evaluate fold recognition results
- LOOPP
- Sequence to sequence, sequence to structure, and structure to structure alignment
- SAM-T02
- HMM-based Protein Structure Prediction
- Threader
- Protein fold recognition
- ProSup
- Protein structure superimposition
- SWEET - Constructing 3D models of saccharides from their sequences
Ab initio
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| Assessing tertiary structure prediction |
- Anolea - Atomic Non-Local Environment Assessment
- Biotech Validation Suite for Protein Structures
- EVA - EValuation of Automatic protein structure prediction
- LiveBench - Continuous Benchmarking of Structure Prediction Servers
- PROCHECK - Verification of the stereochemical quality of a protein structure
- What If - Protein structure analysis program for mutant prediction, structure verification, molecular graphics
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| Molecular modeling and visualization tools |
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| Prediction of disordered regions |
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| Sequence alignment |
| Binary |
- SIM + LALNVIEW
- Alignment of two protein sequences with SIM, results can be viewed with LALNVIEW
- LALIGN - Finds multiple matching subsegments in two sequences
- Dotlet
- A Java applet for sequence comparisons using the dot matrix method
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| Multiple |
- Decrease redundancy
- Reduce a set of sequences into a non-redundant set
- Nomad (Neighborhood Optimization for Multiple Alignment Discovery)
- Ungapped local multiple alignment, optimized for protein sequences, even when distantly related
- CLUSTALW [At
EBI,
PBIL, My Hits or at
EMBnet-CH]
- KALIGN - an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm [At Karolinska Institute or at EBI]
- MAFFT [At Kyushu University, EBI or at MyHits]
- Muscle [At Berkeley or at BioAssist]
- T-Coffee [At
MyHits, BioAssist or at EBI]
- MSA - at Genestream (IGH)
- DIALIGN - Multiple sequence alignment based on segment-to-segment comparison, at University of Bielefeld, Germany
- Match-Box - at University of Namur, Belgium
- at Washington University
- Multalin [At
INRA or at
PBIL]
- MUSCA - Multiple sequence alignment using pattern discovery, at IBM
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| Alignment analysis |
- AMAS
- Analyse Multiply Aligned Sequences
- Bork's alignment tools
- Various tools to enhance the results of multiple alignments (including consensus building).
- CINEMA
- Color Interactive Editor for multiple alignments
- ESPript
- Tool to print a multiple alignment
- MaxAlign - Post-processing of alignments by removing sequences (taxa) with many gaps
- PhyloGibbs
- Gibbs motif sampler incorporating phylogeny and tracking statistics
- SVA
- Sequence Variability Analyser for multiple alignments
- WebLogo
- Sequence logos at Berkeley/USA
- plogo
- Sequence logos at CBS/Denmark
- GENIO/logo - Sequence logos at Stuttgart/Germany
- SeqLogo
- Sequence logos at MIF/USA
- WebLogo
- Sequence logos at Cambridge/UK
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| Phylogenetic analysis |
- Phylogenetic programs - List of phylogenetic packages and free servers (PHYLIP pages)
- PHYLIP - Server for phylogenetic analysis using the PHYLIP package
- BIONJ - Server for NJ phylogenetic analysis
- PHYML - Server for ML phylogenetic analysis
- PHYLIP - Package of programs for inferring phylogenies (Joe Felsenstein)
- MOLPHY - Package of programs for phylogenetic analysis
- MrBayes - Package for the Bayesian estimation of phylogeny
- PAML - Package for phylogenetic analysis by Maximum Likelihood
- TREE PUZZLE - Package for phylogenetic analysis by Maximum Likelihood
- ConSurf - Projection of evolutionary conservation scores of residues on protein structures
- Evolutionary Trace Server (TraceSuite II) - Maps evolutionary traces to structures
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| Biological text analysis
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- AcroMed
- A computer generated database of biomedical acronyms and the associated long forms extracted from the recent
Medline abstracts
- BioMinT - Mining the biomedical literature
- GPSDB - Gene and Protein Synonym DataBase
- MedMiner
- Extract and organize relevant sentences in the literature based on a gene, gene-gene or
gene-drug query
- XplorMed
- Explore a set of abstracts derived from a bibliographic search in MEDLINE
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