IMPORTANT:
Please note that this page is not updated anymore and remains static.
However, many of the external resources listed below are available in the category protoeomics on the portal.
| Protein identification and characterization |
| Identification and characterization with peptide mass fingerprinting data |
- FindMod
- Predict potential protein post-translational modifications and potential single amino acid substitutions in peptides. Experimentally measured peptide masses are compared with the theoretical peptides calculated from a specified Swiss-Prot entry or from a user-entered sequence, and mass differences are used to better characterize the protein of interest.
- FindPept
- Identify peptides that result from unspecific cleavage of proteins from their experimental masses, taking into account artefactual chemical modifications, post-translational modifications (PTM) and protease autolytic cleavage
- Mascot - Peptide mass fingerprint from Matrix Science Ltd., London
- PepMAPPER - Peptide mass fingerprinting tool from UMIST, UK
- ProFound - Search known protein sequences with peptide mass information from Rockefeller and NY Universities [or from Genomic Solutions]
- ProteinProspector - UCSF tools for peptide masses data (MS-Fit, MS-Pattern, MS-Digest, etc.)
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| Identification and characterization with MS/MS data |
- QuickMod
- Open modification spectral library search tool for identification of MS/MS data
- 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
- ProteinProspector - UCSF tools for fragment-ion masses data (MS-Tag, MS-Seq, MS-Product, etc.)
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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 |
- 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
- PeptideCutter
- Predicts potential protease and cleavage sites and sites cleaved by chemicals in a given protein sequence
- PeptideMass
- Calculate masses of peptides and their post-translational modifications for a UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot or UniProtKB/TrEMBL entry or for a user sequence
- xComb - computes all possible crosslinks based on proteins of interest for further interrogation using standard search engine
- xQuest - Search machine to identify cross-linked peptides from complex samples and large protein sequence databases
- SmileMS
- Small molecule identification
- SmileMS molecule toolkit
- isotopes pattern calculator, mass to formula, mass to pubchem compounds
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| Other proteomics tools |
| Glycotools |
- GlycanMass
- Calculate the mass of an oligosaccharide structure
- GlycoMod
- Predict possible oligosaccharide structures that occur on proteins from their experimentally determined masses (can be used for free or derivatized oligosaccharides and for glycopeptides)
- GlycospectrumScan - an analytical tool independent of MS-platform that accurately identifies and assigns the oligosaccharide heterogeneity on glycopeptides from MS data of a mixture of peptides and glycopeptides (Reference)
- Glycoviewer - a visualisation tool for representing a set of glycan structures as a summary figure of all structural features using icons and colours recommended by the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG) (Reference)
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| Other tools for MS data (vizualisation, quantitation, analysis, etc.) |
- HCD/CID spectra merger
- a tool to merge the peptide sequence-ion m/z range from CID spectra and the reporter-ion m/z range from HCD spectra into the appropriate single file, to be further used in identification and quantification search engines
- MALDIPepQuant
- Quantify MALDI peptides (SILAC) from Phenyx output
- MSight
- Mass Spectrometry Imager
- pIcarver
- Visualize theoretical distributions of peptide pI on a given pH range and generate fractions with similar peptide frequencies
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| Other tools for 2-DE data (image analysis, data publishing, etc.) |
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| Similarity searches |
- BLAST
Network Service on ExPASy
- BLAST
at EMBnet-CH/SIB (Switzerland)
- BLAST at NCBI
- WU-BLAST at Bork's group in EMBL (Heidelberg)
- WU-BLAST and BLAST at the EBI (Hinxton)
- BLAST at PBIL (Lyon)
- Fasta3 - FASTA version 3 at the EBI
- 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
- BLAST2FASTA - Converts NCBI BLAST output into FASTA format
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| Pattern and profile searches |
- InterPro Scan - Integrated search in PROSITE, Pfam, PRINTS and other family and domain databases
- MyHits
- Relationships between protein sequences and motifs
- ScanProsite
- Scans a sequence against PROSITE or a pattern against the UniProt Knowledgebase (Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL)
- HamapScan
- Scans a sequence against the HAMAP families
- MotifScan
- Scans a sequence against protein profile databases (including PROSITE)
- Pfam HMM search - Scans a sequence against the Pfam protein families db [At Washington University or at Sanger Centre]
- ProDom - Compares sequences with ProDom search utility
- SUPERFAMILY Sequence Search - Assign SCOP domains to your sequences using the SUPERFAMILY hidden Markov models
- FingerPRINTScan - Scans a protein sequence against the PRINTS Protein Fingerprint Database
- 3of5 - Complex Pattern Search - e.g. to search for a motif with 3 basic AA in 5 positions
- ELM - Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource for functional sites in proteins
- PRATT - Interactively generates conserved patterns from a series of unaligned proteins; [at EBI / ExPASy
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- PPSEARCH - Scans a sequence against PROSITE (allows a graphical output); at EBI
- PROSITE scan - Scans a sequence against PROSITE (allows mismatches); at PBIL
- PATTINPROT - Scans a protein sequence or a protein database for one or several pattern(s); at PBIL
- SMART - Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool; at EMBL
- TEIRESIAS - Generate patterns from a collection of unaligned protein or DNA sequences; at IBM
- 9aaTAD - Prediction of Nine Amino Acid Transactivation Domain
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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
- 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
- GPS - Prediction of kinase-specific phosphorylation sites for 408 human protein kinases in hierarchy
- Sulfinator
- Prediction of tyrosine sulfation sites
- SulfoSite - Prediction of tyrosine sulfation sites
- SUMOplot - Prediction of SUMO protein attachment sites
- SUMOsp - Prediction of sumoylation sites
- TermiNator - Prediction of N-terminal modification (version 3)
- 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)
- 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
- Scratch Protein Predictor
- HeliQuest - A web server to screen sequences with specific alpha-helical properties
- Radar - De novo repeat detection in protein sequences
- REP - Searches a protein sequence for repeats
- REPRO - De novo repeat detection in protein sequences
- T-REKS - De novo detection and alignment of repeats 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 probabilities with the Paircoil algorithm.
- Multicoil - Prediction of two- and three-stranded coiled coils
- 2ZIP - Prediction of Leucine Zippers
- ePESTfind - Identification of PEST regions
- 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
- Peptide Builder
- 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
- PepDraw - peptide primary structure drawing
- 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
- CFSSP - Chou & Fasman Secondary Structure Prediction Server
- GOR - Garnier et al, 1996
- HNN - Hierarchical Neural Network method (Guermeur, 1997)
- HTMSRAP - Helical TransMembrane Segment Rotational Angle Prediction
- Jpred - A consensus method for protein secondary structure prediction at University of Dundee
- JUFO - Protein secondary structure prediction from sequence (neural network)
- NetSurfP - Protein Surface Accessibility and Secondary Structure Predictions
- NetTurnP - Prediction of Beta-turn regions in protein sequences
- 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 Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
- SOPMA - Geourjon and Delage, 1995
- Scratch Protein Predictor
- DLP-SVM - Domain linker prediction using SVM at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
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| Tertiary structure |
| Tertiary structure analysis
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- iMolTalk - An Interactive Protein Structure Analysis Server (currently down)
- MolTalk - A computational environment for structural bioinformatics
- COPS - Navigation through fold space and the instantaneous visualization of pairwise structure similarities
- PoPMuSiC - Prediction of thermodynamic stability changes upon point mutations; design of modified proteins
- 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
- TopMatch-web - Protein structure comparison
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| Tertiary structure prediction
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Homology modeling
- SWISS-MODEL
- An automated knowledge-based protein modelling server
- CPHmodels - Automated neural-network based protein modelling server
- ESyPred3D - Automated homology modeling program using neural networks
- Geno3d - Automatic modelling of protein three-dimensional structure
Threading
- Phyre (Successor of 3D-PSSM) - Automated 3D model building using profile-profile matching and secondary structure
- Fugue - Sequence-structure homology recognition
- HHpred - Protein homology detection and structure prediction by HMM-HMM comparison
- LOOPP - Sequence to sequence, sequence to structure, and structure to structure alignment
- SAM-T08 - HMM-based Protein Structure Prediction
- PSIpred - Various protein structure prediction methods (including threading) at Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
Ab initio
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| Assessing tertiary structure prediction |
- Anolea - Atomic Non-Local Environment Assessment
- LiveBench - Continuous Benchmarking of Structure Prediction Servers
- NQ-Flipper - Validation and correction of asparagine and glutamine side-chain amide rotamers in protein structures solved by X-ray crystallography
- PROCHECK - Verification of the stereochemical quality of a protein structure
- ProSA-web - Recognition of errors in 3D structures of proteins
- QMEAN
- Server for Model Quality Estimation
- What If - Protein structure analysis program for mutant prediction, structure verification, molecular graphics
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| Quaternary structure
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- MakeMultimer - Reconstruction of multimeric molecules present in crystals
- EBI PISA - Protein Interfaces, Surfaces and Assemblies
- PQS - Protein Quaternary Structure Query form at the EBI
- ProtBud - Comparison of asymmetric units and biological units from PDB and PQS
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| Molecular modeling and visualization tools
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| Prediction of disordered regions |
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| Sequence alignment |
| Binary |
- 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 |
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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
- PVS - A protein variability server optimized for conserved epitope discovery
- WebLogo - Sequence logos at Berkeley/USA
- plogo - Sequence logos at CBS/Denmark
- GENIO/logo - Sequence logos at Stuttgart/Germany
- SeqLogo - Sequence logos at the Immunomedicine Group, Facultad de Medicina, U.C.M, Spain (The Molecular Immunology Foundation (MIF) does not exist anymore)
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| Biological text analysis |
- 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
- Medline Ranker
- The Miner Suite - of bioinformatic software packages and data analysis
- XplorMed - Explore a set of abstracts derived from a bibliographic search in MEDLINE
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| Statistical tools |
- pROC
- A package (R, S+) to visualize, smooth and compare receiver operating characteristic (ROC curves)
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Last modified 27/Sep/2010 by GRR