NAR Web Server Issue 2007

Computer Related

DNA

Education

Expression

Human Genome

Literature

Model Organisms

Other Molecules

Protein

RNA

Sequence Comparison

Computer Related > Web Services

DNA > Annotations

AsteriasTool Content

http://asterias.bioinfo.cnio.es/

Asterias is a set of tools for the analyses of high throughput genomic data that includes applications for microarray data normalization, filtering, detection of differential gene expression, class and survival prediction model building, and analysis of array CGH data. Most applications use parallel computing resulting in significant increases in speed.

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CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

FatiGOplusTool Content

http://www.fatigo.org/

FatiGOplus is a tool for the functional profiling of genome-scale experiments oriented to the interpretation of microarray experiments. As part of the Babelomics suite, FatiGOplus finds differential distributions of biological terms (GO, KEGG pathways, Interpro motifs, Transfac motifs, CisRed motifs, etc.) between two groups of genes.

GeneTrailTool Content

http://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/index.php

GeneTrail analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes belonging to functional categories. Two common statistical approaches are implemented including: Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) for comparing a reference set of genes to a test set; and, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for scoring sorted lists of genes.

KAASTool Content

http://www.genome.jp/kegg/kaas/

KAAS (KEGG Automatic Annotation Server) is a tool for ortholog assignment and pathway mapping. KAAS provides functional annotation of genes by BLAST comparisons against the manually curated KEGG GENES database. The result contains KO (KEGG Orthology) assignments and automatically generated KEGG pathways.

MADAPTool Content

http://ccg.vital-it.ch/madap/

MADAP is a clustering tool for the interpretation annotation data mapped onto complete or partial genome sequences. Initially developed for determining transcription start sites (TSS) by defining 5\' and 3\'ends of mRNA, MADAP also has utility in clustering other annotation data types (ChIP-chip data, for example).

NCBI Influenza Virus Sequence Annotation ToolTool Content

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/Database/annotation.cgi

The NCBI Influenza Virus Sequence Annotation Tool is a web application for user-provided sequences. It can predict protein sequences encoded by an input flu sequence and produce a feature table that can be used for sequence submission to GenBank.

Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

g:ProfilerTool Content

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

g:Profiler is a set of tools for functional annotation of gene lists that includes: g:GOSt, which retrieves the most significant Gene Ontology (GO) terms, KEGG and REACTOME pathways, and TRANSFAC motifs; g:Convert, for conversion between gene or protein names/IDs; g:Orth, for retrieving orthologs; and, g:Sorter, which searches for similar expression profiles. Functional analysis of SNPs and other DNA polymorphisms is also supported, as is enrichment analysis.

DNA > Gene Prediction

DNA > Phylogeny Reconstruction

BLASTOTool Content

http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/BlastO/index.html

BLASTO (BLAST on Orthologous groups) is a modified BLAST tool for searching orthologous group data. It treats each orthologous group as a unit and outputs a ranked list of orthologous groups instead of single sequences.

PhylemonTool Content

http://phylemon.bioinfo.cipf.es

Phylemon is a server that integrates a suite of tools for multiple sequence alignment, phylogeny, and evolutionary tests from the most popular stand-alone phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis programs. Phylemon 2.0 has an integrated environment to allow for evolutionary analyses, format conversion, file storage and editing capacity, and has saved phylogenetic pipeline function.

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

DNA > Sequence Polymorphisms

CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

WhETSTool Content

http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/whets/

WhETS (Wheat Estimated Transcript Server) is a resource that combines Triticeae ESTs/mRNAs with rice genes to find the best estimate of hexaploid wheat transcript sequences for a target gene, supplemented with information on tissue distribution and likely gene structure, to aid in primer design.

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g:ProfilerTool Content

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

g:Profiler is a set of tools for functional annotation of gene lists that includes: g:GOSt, which retrieves the most significant Gene Ontology (GO) terms, KEGG and REACTOME pathways, and TRANSFAC motifs; g:Convert, for conversion between gene or protein names/IDs; g:Orth, for retrieving orthologs; and, g:Sorter, which searches for similar expression profiles. Functional analysis of SNPs and other DNA polymorphisms is also supported, as is enrichment analysis.

DNA > Sequence Retrieval and Submission

NCBI Influenza Virus Sequence Annotation ToolTool Content

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/Database/annotation.cgi

The NCBI Influenza Virus Sequence Annotation Tool is a web application for user-provided sequences. It can predict protein sequences encoded by an input flu sequence and produce a feature table that can be used for sequence submission to GenBank.

WhETSTool Content

http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/whets/

WhETS (Wheat Estimated Transcript Server) is a resource that combines Triticeae ESTs/mRNAs with rice genes to find the best estimate of hexaploid wheat transcript sequences for a target gene, supplemented with information on tissue distribution and likely gene structure, to aid in primer design.

This content is being maintained by RowanMitchell.

DNA > Structure and Sequence Feature Detection

MYBSTool Content

http://cg1.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~mybs/index.php

MYBS (Mining Yeast Binding Sites) is a tool for mapping Transcription factors (TFs) and their binding sites (TFBSs) that integrates both experimentally verified (ChIP-chip data) and predicted position weight matrixes (PWMs) from several databases.

MelinaIITool Content

http://melina2.hgc.jp/public/index.html

MelinaII (Motif Elucidator in Nucleotide Sequence Assembly) can run multiple motif prediction tools (Consensus, MEME, Gibbs Sampler, MDScan, Weeder) simultaneously. Graphical results can be used to compare predictions of potential DNA motifs (such as transcription factor binding sites, TFBS) in promoter regions.

This content is being maintained by Kenta Nakai.

OPTIMIZERTool Content

http://genomes.urv.es/OPTIMIZER/

OPTIMIZER is an application that optimizes the codon usage of a DNA sequence. This server can be used to predict and optimize the level expression of a gene in heterologous gene expression systems.

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Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

SCOPETool Content

http://genie.dartmouth.edu/scope/

SCOPE (Suite for Computational identification Of Promoter Elements) is a set of programs aimed at identifying novel cis-regulatory elements from groups of upstream sequences. SCOPE does not have any nuisance parameters so does not require the user to guess what the results might be. SCOPE is also very robust to noisy data and is still 50% as accurate even in the presence of 4-fold noise. SCOPE can also identify other genes in the genome that might be coregulated with the original gene set.

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ZiFiTTool Content

http://bindr.gdcb.iastate.edu/ZiFiT/

ZiFiT (Zinc Finger Targeter) assists in the design of zinc finger proteins that can bind to specific DNA sequences. ZiFiT has been updated to integrate additional tools and resources including scoring schemes for modular assembly, an interface with the Zinc Finger Database of engineered ZFPs, and direct query of NCBI BLAST servers for identification of potential off-target sites within a host genome.

DNA > Tools For the Bench

NTMGTool Content

http://oblab.cs.nchu.edu.tw:8080/WebSDL/

NTMG (N-Terminal Truncated Mutants Generator) is a tool for generating multiplex PCR primers for designing N-terminal truncated mutants.

OligoCalcTool Content

http://www.basic.northwestern.edu/biotools/OligoCalc.html

OligoCalc calculates the physical properties of single- and double-stranded DNA and RNA molecules including melting temperature (multiple methods), concentration, molecular weight, and absorbance at 260 nanometers. OligoCalc can also account for 5’ and 3’ chemical modifications and predict potential hairpin loop formation.

REPKTool Content

http://rocaplab.ocean.washington.edu/tools/repk

REPK (Restriction Endonuclease Picker) assists in the choice of restriction endonucleases for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) by finding sets of four restriction endonucleases which together uniquely differentiate user-designated sequence groups.

WebTraceMinerTool Content

http://www.conifergdb.org/software/wtm1.2/

WebTraceMiner is a tool for processing and mining Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) trace files. It can help characterize 3\' and 5\' termini of cDNA inserts by detecting sequence features such as vector fragments, adapter/linker sequences, insert-flanking restriction endonuclease recognition sites, and polyA or polyT tails.

Education > Directories and Portals

Expression > Gene Regulation

DEEPTool Content

http://www.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de/services/deep/

DEEP (Differential Expression Effector Prediction) is a tool that can identify effectors of specific expression profiles by combining gene expression data with biological expert knowledge about biomolecular interaction networks (provided by resources like TRANSPATH, for example).

FatiGOplusTool Content

http://www.fatigo.org/

FatiGOplus is a tool for the functional profiling of genome-scale experiments oriented to the interpretation of microarray experiments. As part of the Babelomics suite, FatiGOplus finds differential distributions of biological terms (GO, KEGG pathways, Interpro motifs, Transfac motifs, CisRed motifs, etc.) between two groups of genes.

MADAPTool Content

http://ccg.vital-it.ch/madap/

MADAP is a clustering tool for the interpretation annotation data mapped onto complete or partial genome sequences. Initially developed for determining transcription start sites (TSS) by defining 5\' and 3\'ends of mRNA, MADAP also has utility in clustering other annotation data types (ChIP-chip data, for example).

MYBSTool Content

http://cg1.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~mybs/index.php

MYBS (Mining Yeast Binding Sites) is a tool for mapping Transcription factors (TFs) and their binding sites (TFBSs) that integrates both experimentally verified (ChIP-chip data) and predicted position weight matrixes (PWMs) from several databases.

MelinaIITool Content

http://melina2.hgc.jp/public/index.html

MelinaII (Motif Elucidator in Nucleotide Sequence Assembly) can run multiple motif prediction tools (Consensus, MEME, Gibbs Sampler, MDScan, Weeder) simultaneously. Graphical results can be used to compare predictions of potential DNA motifs (such as transcription factor binding sites, TFBS) in promoter regions.

This content is being maintained by Kenta Nakai.

Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

SCOPETool Content

http://genie.dartmouth.edu/scope/

SCOPE (Suite for Computational identification Of Promoter Elements) is a set of programs aimed at identifying novel cis-regulatory elements from groups of upstream sequences. SCOPE does not have any nuisance parameters so does not require the user to guess what the results might be. SCOPE is also very robust to noisy data and is still 50% as accurate even in the presence of 4-fold noise. SCOPE can also identify other genes in the genome that might be coregulated with the original gene set.

This content is being maintained by bobgross.

ZiFiTTool Content

http://bindr.gdcb.iastate.edu/ZiFiT/

ZiFiT (Zinc Finger Targeter) assists in the design of zinc finger proteins that can bind to specific DNA sequences. ZiFiT has been updated to integrate additional tools and resources including scoring schemes for modular assembly, an interface with the Zinc Finger Database of engineered ZFPs, and direct query of NCBI BLAST servers for identification of potential off-target sites within a host genome.

g:ProfilerTool Content

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

g:Profiler is a set of tools for functional annotation of gene lists that includes: g:GOSt, which retrieves the most significant Gene Ontology (GO) terms, KEGG and REACTOME pathways, and TRANSFAC motifs; g:Convert, for conversion between gene or protein names/IDs; g:Orth, for retrieving orthologs; and, g:Sorter, which searches for similar expression profiles. Functional analysis of SNPs and other DNA polymorphisms is also supported, as is enrichment analysis.

Expression > Gene Set Analysis

Expression > Networks

Expression > Protein Expression

OPTIMIZERTool Content

http://genomes.urv.es/OPTIMIZER/

OPTIMIZER is an application that optimizes the codon usage of a DNA sequence. This server can be used to predict and optimize the level expression of a gene in heterologous gene expression systems.

This content is being maintained by ppuigbo.

Expression > Splicing

AStalavistaTool Content

http://genome.imim.es/astalavista/

AStalavista (alternative splicing transcriptional landscape visualization tool) dynamically identifies, extracts, and displays alternative splicing events from whole genome annotations and user provided gene sets.

SplicePortTool Content

http://spliceport.cs.umd.edu/

SplicePort makes splice-site predictions for submitted sequences, and allows browsing of the motifs used in the prediction. Feature selection is optimized for human splice sites.

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Expression > Transcript Expression Analysis

AsteriasTool Content

http://asterias.bioinfo.cnio.es/

Asterias is a set of tools for the analyses of high throughput genomic data that includes applications for microarray data normalization, filtering, detection of differential gene expression, class and survival prediction model building, and analysis of array CGH data. Most applications use parallel computing resulting in significant increases in speed.

This content is being maintained by rdiaz02.

DEEPTool Content

http://www.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de/services/deep/

DEEP (Differential Expression Effector Prediction) is a tool that can identify effectors of specific expression profiles by combining gene expression data with biological expert knowledge about biomolecular interaction networks (provided by resources like TRANSPATH, for example).

FatiGOplusTool Content

http://www.fatigo.org/

FatiGOplus is a tool for the functional profiling of genome-scale experiments oriented to the interpretation of microarray experiments. As part of the Babelomics suite, FatiGOplus finds differential distributions of biological terms (GO, KEGG pathways, Interpro motifs, Transfac motifs, CisRed motifs, etc.) between two groups of genes.

GeneTrailTool Content

http://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/index.php

GeneTrail analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes belonging to functional categories. Two common statistical approaches are implemented including: Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) for comparing a reference set of genes to a test set; and, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for scoring sorted lists of genes.

MAGMATool Content

http://www.magma-fgcz.unizh.ch/pages/loginuser.jsf

MAGMA can be used for the analyses of two-channel microarray experiments and computes genes with significant differential expression using R and Bioconductor. Automatically generated R-scripts are available for download.

Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

PathExpressTool Content

http://bioinfoserver.rsbs.anu.edu.au/utils/PathExpress/

PathExpress is a tool developed to interpret gene expression data obtained from microarray experiments by identifying and visualizing the most relevant metabolic pathways associated with a subset of genes (e.g. differentially expressed genes). Enzyme Neighborhood (a sub-network of linked enzymes with a limited path length) allows identification of the most relevant sub-network affected in a gene expression experiment.

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g:ProfilerTool Content

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

g:Profiler is a set of tools for functional annotation of gene lists that includes: g:GOSt, which retrieves the most significant Gene Ontology (GO) terms, KEGG and REACTOME pathways, and TRANSFAC motifs; g:Convert, for conversion between gene or protein names/IDs; g:Orth, for retrieving orthologs; and, g:Sorter, which searches for similar expression profiles. Functional analysis of SNPs and other DNA polymorphisms is also supported, as is enrichment analysis.

Expression > cDNA, EST, SAGE

DEEPTool Content

http://www.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de/services/deep/

DEEP (Differential Expression Effector Prediction) is a tool that can identify effectors of specific expression profiles by combining gene expression data with biological expert knowledge about biomolecular interaction networks (provided by resources like TRANSPATH, for example).

WebTraceMinerTool Content

http://www.conifergdb.org/software/wtm1.2/

WebTraceMiner is a tool for processing and mining Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) trace files. It can help characterize 3\' and 5\' termini of cDNA inserts by detecting sequence features such as vector fragments, adapter/linker sequences, insert-flanking restriction endonuclease recognition sites, and polyA or polyT tails.

Human Genome > Annotations

CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

MADAPTool Content

http://ccg.vital-it.ch/madap/

MADAP is a clustering tool for the interpretation annotation data mapped onto complete or partial genome sequences. Initially developed for determining transcription start sites (TSS) by defining 5\' and 3\'ends of mRNA, MADAP also has utility in clustering other annotation data types (ChIP-chip data, for example).

Human Genome > Health and Disease

CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

G2DTool Content

http://www.ogic.ca/projects/g2d_2/

G2D (Candidate Genes to Inherited Diseases) scans a human genomic region for genes related to an inherited disease. The G2D server also presents precomputed candidate genes for more than 600 genetically inherited diseases that have been mapped onto chromosomal regions without assignment of a particular gene.

Human Genome > Other Resources

LIPID MAPSTool Content

http://www.lipidmaps.org/tools/index.html

LIPID Metabolites And Pathways Strategy (LIPID MAPS) is a consortium that presents a collection of tools for performing tasks such as drawing lipid structures and predicting possible structures from mass spectrometry data.

Human Genome > Sequence Polymorphisms

CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

Literature > Search Tools

eTBLASTDatabase Content

http://etest.vbi.vt.edu/etblast3/

eTBLAST is a textual similarity search engine. This server can parse and summarize the results of an abstract similarity search to find appropriate journals for publication, authors with expertise in a given field, and documents similar to a submitted query.

Literature > Text Mining and Semantics

CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

iHOPTool Content

http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/

iHOP (Information Hyperlinked over Proteins) allows researchers to explore a network of gene and protein interactions based on published scientific literature. For each gene search, iHOP reports sentences from abstracts associating it with other genes, links out to full abstracts, and reports experimental evidence for the interactions, if available. You can also select sentences to create and visualize your own gene model.

Model Organisms > General Resources

Model Organisms > Microbes

REPKTool Content

http://rocaplab.ocean.washington.edu/tools/repk

REPK (Restriction Endonuclease Picker) assists in the choice of restriction endonucleases for terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) by finding sets of four restriction endonucleases which together uniquely differentiate user-designated sequence groups.

Model Organisms > Mouse and Rat

Model Organisms > Other Organisms

NCBI Influenza Virus Sequence Annotation ToolTool Content

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/FLU/Database/annotation.cgi

The NCBI Influenza Virus Sequence Annotation Tool is a web application for user-provided sequences. It can predict protein sequences encoded by an input flu sequence and produce a feature table that can be used for sequence submission to GenBank.

Model Organisms > Plants

WhETSTool Content

http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/whets/

WhETS (Wheat Estimated Transcript Server) is a resource that combines Triticeae ESTs/mRNAs with rice genes to find the best estimate of hexaploid wheat transcript sequences for a target gene, supplemented with information on tissue distribution and likely gene structure, to aid in primer design.

This content is being maintained by RowanMitchell.

Model Organisms > Yeast

MYBSTool Content

http://cg1.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~mybs/index.php

MYBS (Mining Yeast Binding Sites) is a tool for mapping Transcription factors (TFs) and their binding sites (TFBSs) that integrates both experimentally verified (ChIP-chip data) and predicted position weight matrixes (PWMs) from several databases.

Other Molecules > Metabolites

LIPID MAPSTool Content

http://www.lipidmaps.org/tools/index.html

LIPID Metabolites And Pathways Strategy (LIPID MAPS) is a consortium that presents a collection of tools for performing tasks such as drawing lipid structures and predicting possible structures from mass spectrometry data.

Other Molecules > Small Molecules

Protein > 2-D Structure Prediction

OpenHUSARTool Content

http://genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/cgi-bin/w2h-open/w2h.open/w2h.start...

Open HUSAR (Heidelberg Unix Sequence Analysis Resources) contains suite of bioinformatics pipelines including tasks oriented to protein annotation by homology (ProtSweep), by domain analysis (DomainSweep), and by secondary structure elements (2Dsweep).

Protein > 3-D Structural Features

PDB2PQR ServerTool Content

http://pdb2pqr.sourceforge.net/

Server that allows users to convert PDB files into PQR files by adding missing atoms, optimizing hydrogen bonding and assigning atomic charge and radius parameters. The resulting PQR file can be used for electrostatic calculations which can give insight into the influence of electrostatics on biomolecular structures.

PICTool Content

http://crick.mbu.iisc.ernet.in/~PIC/

Protein Interactions Calculator (PIC) is a server which recognizes various kinds of interactions; such as disulphide bonds, hydrophobic interactions, hydrogen bonds, aromatic interactions, and ionic interactions within a protein or between proteins in a complex.

ProMateusTool Content

http://bioportal.weizmann.ac.il/promate/

ProMateus extends ProMate, a protein binding site predictor, and allows the user to suggest new features that might improve the prediction of the binding site locations.

Protein > 3-D Structure Comparison

DBAliDatabase Content

http://salilab.org/DBAli/

DBAli is a database that includes a comprehensive all-against-all comparison of protein structures in the PDB database. Tools associated with the database allow users to mine this protein structure space by establishing relationships between protein structures and their functions.

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Protein > 3-D Structure Prediction

M4TTool Content

http://manaslu.aecom.yu.edu/M4T/

M4T (Multiple Mapping Method with Multiple Templates) is a comparative protein structure modeling server that uses a combination of multiple templates and iterative optimization of alternative alignments.

ProSA-webTool Content

https://prosa.services.came.sbg.ac.at/prosa.php

ProSA-web (Protein Structure Analysis) is an extension of the classic ProSA program used for the refinement and validation of experimental protein structures and in structure prediction and modeling.

Protein > 3-D Structure Retrieval/Viewing

MolProbityTool Content

http://molprobity.biochem.duke.edu/

MolProbity is a structure validation web service for diagnosing problems in 3D models of proteins, nucleic acids or complexes. It adds and optimizes H atoms (correcting 180° flipped Asn/Gln/His sidechains), and then calculates global and local validation for all-atom contacts (steric clashes, H-bonds & vdW), covalent geometry, and conformation (Ramachandran & rotamers for protein, ribose puckers & suite conformers for RNA). Results are displayed online as 3D graphics and sortable charts.

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Protein > Annotation and Function

DBAliDatabase Content

http://salilab.org/DBAli/

DBAli is a database that includes a comprehensive all-against-all comparison of protein structures in the PDB database. Tools associated with the database allow users to mine this protein structure space by establishing relationships between protein structures and their functions.

GeneTrailTool Content

http://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/index.php

GeneTrail analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes belonging to functional categories. Two common statistical approaches are implemented including: Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) for comparing a reference set of genes to a test set; and, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for scoring sorted lists of genes.

Protein > Biochemical Features

Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

PDB2PQR ServerTool Content

http://pdb2pqr.sourceforge.net/

Server that allows users to convert PDB files into PQR files by adding missing atoms, optimizing hydrogen bonding and assigning atomic charge and radius parameters. The resulting PQR file can be used for electrostatic calculations which can give insight into the influence of electrostatics on biomolecular structures.

Protein > Domains and Motifs

DBAliDatabase Content

http://salilab.org/DBAli/

DBAli is a database that includes a comprehensive all-against-all comparison of protein structures in the PDB database. Tools associated with the database allow users to mine this protein structure space by establishing relationships between protein structures and their functions.

GeneTrailTool Content

http://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/index.php

GeneTrail analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes belonging to functional categories. Two common statistical approaches are implemented including: Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) for comparing a reference set of genes to a test set; and, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for scoring sorted lists of genes.

MelinaIITool Content

http://melina2.hgc.jp/public/index.html

MelinaII (Motif Elucidator in Nucleotide Sequence Assembly) can run multiple motif prediction tools (Consensus, MEME, Gibbs Sampler, MDScan, Weeder) simultaneously. Graphical results can be used to compare predictions of potential DNA motifs (such as transcription factor binding sites, TFBS) in promoter regions.

This content is being maintained by Kenta Nakai.

MyHitsTool Content

http://myhits.isb-sib.ch

The MyHits server integrates several tools with a focus on protein annotation and the analysis of protein domains. Guest users have access to tools such as ClustalW and T-Coffee and databases like Swiss-Prot, Prosite and Interpro. Registration allows users to store their results in private databases, and is free for academic users.

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OpenHUSARTool Content

http://genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/cgi-bin/w2h-open/w2h.open/w2h.start...

Open HUSAR (Heidelberg Unix Sequence Analysis Resources) contains suite of bioinformatics pipelines including tasks oriented to protein annotation by homology (ProtSweep), by domain analysis (DomainSweep), and by secondary structure elements (2Dsweep).

g:ProfilerTool Content

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

g:Profiler is a set of tools for functional annotation of gene lists that includes: g:GOSt, which retrieves the most significant Gene Ontology (GO) terms, KEGG and REACTOME pathways, and TRANSFAC motifs; g:Convert, for conversion between gene or protein names/IDs; g:Orth, for retrieving orthologs; and, g:Sorter, which searches for similar expression profiles. Functional analysis of SNPs and other DNA polymorphisms is also supported, as is enrichment analysis.

Protein > Interactions, Pathways, Enzymes

CARGOTool Content

http://cargo2.bioinfo.cnio.es/docs/aboutCargo.html

CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a portal that uses widgets to allow users to mine literature using iHOP, retrieve disease information from OMIM, visualize 3D SNPs, query protein interactions, and view summarized gene annotation information for cancer related genes in human.

DEEPTool Content

http://www.bioinf.med.uni-goettingen.de/services/deep/

DEEP (Differential Expression Effector Prediction) is a tool that can identify effectors of specific expression profiles by combining gene expression data with biological expert knowledge about biomolecular interaction networks (provided by resources like TRANSPATH, for example).

FatiGOplusTool Content

http://www.fatigo.org/

FatiGOplus is a tool for the functional profiling of genome-scale experiments oriented to the interpretation of microarray experiments. As part of the Babelomics suite, FatiGOplus finds differential distributions of biological terms (GO, KEGG pathways, Interpro motifs, Transfac motifs, CisRed motifs, etc.) between two groups of genes.

GeneTrailTool Content

http://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/index.php

GeneTrail analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes belonging to functional categories. Two common statistical approaches are implemented including: Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) for comparing a reference set of genes to a test set; and, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for scoring sorted lists of genes.

KAASTool Content

http://www.genome.jp/kegg/kaas/

KAAS (KEGG Automatic Annotation Server) is a tool for ortholog assignment and pathway mapping. KAAS provides functional annotation of genes by BLAST comparisons against the manually curated KEGG GENES database. The result contains KO (KEGG Orthology) assignments and automatically generated KEGG pathways.

Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

PICTool Content

http://crick.mbu.iisc.ernet.in/~PIC/

Protein Interactions Calculator (PIC) is a server which recognizes various kinds of interactions; such as disulphide bonds, hydrophobic interactions, hydrogen bonds, aromatic interactions, and ionic interactions within a protein or between proteins in a complex.

PathExpressTool Content

http://bioinfoserver.rsbs.anu.edu.au/utils/PathExpress/

PathExpress is a tool developed to interpret gene expression data obtained from microarray experiments by identifying and visualizing the most relevant metabolic pathways associated with a subset of genes (e.g. differentially expressed genes). Enzyme Neighborhood (a sub-network of linked enzymes with a limited path length) allows identification of the most relevant sub-network affected in a gene expression experiment.

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ProMateusTool Content

http://bioportal.weizmann.ac.il/promate/

ProMateus extends ProMate, a protein binding site predictor, and allows the user to suggest new features that might improve the prediction of the binding site locations.

g:ProfilerTool Content

http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

g:Profiler is a set of tools for functional annotation of gene lists that includes: g:GOSt, which retrieves the most significant Gene Ontology (GO) terms, KEGG and REACTOME pathways, and TRANSFAC motifs; g:Convert, for conversion between gene or protein names/IDs; g:Orth, for retrieving orthologs; and, g:Sorter, which searches for similar expression profiles. Functional analysis of SNPs and other DNA polymorphisms is also supported, as is enrichment analysis.

iHOPTool Content

http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/

iHOP (Information Hyperlinked over Proteins) allows researchers to explore a network of gene and protein interactions based on published scientific literature. For each gene search, iHOP reports sentences from abstracts associating it with other genes, links out to full abstracts, and reports experimental evidence for the interactions, if available. You can also select sentences to create and visualize your own gene model.

Protein > Localization and Targeting

GeneTrailTool Content

http://genetrail.bioinf.uni-sb.de/index.php

GeneTrail analyzes gene sets for statistically significant accumulations of genes belonging to functional categories. Two common statistical approaches are implemented including: Over-Representation Analysis (ORA) for comparing a reference set of genes to a test set; and, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for scoring sorted lists of genes.

OpenHUSARTool Content

http://genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/cgi-bin/w2h-open/w2h.open/w2h.start...

Open HUSAR (Heidelberg Unix Sequence Analysis Resources) contains suite of bioinformatics pipelines including tasks oriented to protein annotation by homology (ProtSweep), by domain analysis (DomainSweep), and by secondary structure elements (2Dsweep).

Protein > Molecular Dynamics and Docking

Protein > Phylogeny Reconstruction

BLASTOTool Content

http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/BlastO/index.html

BLASTO (BLAST on Orthologous groups) is a modified BLAST tool for searching orthologous group data. It treats each orthologous group as a unit and outputs a ranked list of orthologous groups instead of single sequences.

PhylemonTool Content

http://phylemon.bioinfo.cipf.es

Phylemon is a server that integrates a suite of tools for multiple sequence alignment, phylogeny, and evolutionary tests from the most popular stand-alone phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis programs. Phylemon 2.0 has an integrated environment to allow for evolutionary analyses, format conversion, file storage and editing capacity, and has saved phylogenetic pipeline function.

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Protein > Presentation and Format

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Protein > Proteomics

Protein > Sequence Features

Protein > Sequence Retrieval

RNA > Functional RNAs

RNA > Motifs

RADARTool Content

http://datalab.njit.edu/biodata/rna/RSmatch/server.htm

RADAR (RNA Data Analysis and Research) provides multiple tools for RNA structure analysis including: pairwise structure alignment, multiple structure alignment, constrained structure alignment, database searching, and prediction of the consensus structure for a set of RNA sequences.

RNA > Sequence Retrieval

RNA > Structure Prediction, Visualization, and Design

MolProbityTool Content

http://molprobity.biochem.duke.edu/

MolProbity is a structure validation web service for diagnosing problems in 3D models of proteins, nucleic acids or complexes. It adds and optimizes H atoms (correcting 180° flipped Asn/Gln/His sidechains), and then calculates global and local validation for all-atom contacts (steric clashes, H-bonds & vdW), covalent geometry, and conformation (Ramachandran & rotamers for protein, ribose puckers & suite conformers for RNA). Results are displayed online as 3D graphics and sortable charts.

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RADARTool Content

http://datalab.njit.edu/biodata/rna/RSmatch/server.htm

RADAR (RNA Data Analysis and Research) provides multiple tools for RNA structure analysis including: pairwise structure alignment, multiple structure alignment, constrained structure alignment, database searching, and prediction of the consensus structure for a set of RNA sequences.

RNA MoviesTool Content

http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnamovies/

RNA Movies is a tool for the visualization of RNA secondary structure spaces. The program creates an interpolated animation of user provided sets of secondary structure data.

Sequence Comparison > Alignment Editing and Visualization

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Sequence Comparison > Analysis of Aligned Sequences

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Sequence Comparison > Comparative Genomics

KAASTool Content

http://www.genome.jp/kegg/kaas/

KAAS (KEGG Automatic Annotation Server) is a tool for ortholog assignment and pathway mapping. KAAS provides functional annotation of genes by BLAST comparisons against the manually curated KEGG GENES database. The result contains KO (KEGG Orthology) assignments and automatically generated KEGG pathways.

Sequence Comparison > Multiple Sequence Alignments

BLASTOTool Content

http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/BlastO/index.html

BLASTO (BLAST on Orthologous groups) is a modified BLAST tool for searching orthologous group data. It treats each orthologous group as a unit and outputs a ranked list of orthologous groups instead of single sequences.

MyHitsTool Content

http://myhits.isb-sib.ch

The MyHits server integrates several tools with a focus on protein annotation and the analysis of protein domains. Guest users have access to tools such as ClustalW and T-Coffee and databases like Swiss-Prot, Prosite and Interpro. Registration allows users to store their results in private databases, and is free for academic users.

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PROMALS and PROMALS3DTool Content

http://prodata.swmed.edu/promals3d

PROMALS (Profile Multiple Alignment with Local Structure) is a progressive mutliple sequence alignment method that improves alignment quality by using additional homologs from PSI-BLAST searches and secondary structure predictions from PSIPRED. PROMALS3D constructs alignments for multiple protein sequences and/or structures using information from sequence database searches, secondary structure prediction, available homologs with 3D structures and user-defined constraints.

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PhylemonTool Content

http://phylemon.bioinfo.cipf.es

Phylemon is a server that integrates a suite of tools for multiple sequence alignment, phylogeny, and evolutionary tests from the most popular stand-alone phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis programs. Phylemon 2.0 has an integrated environment to allow for evolutionary analyses, format conversion, file storage and editing capacity, and has saved phylogenetic pipeline function.

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Sequence Comparison > Other Alignment Tools

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

Sequence Comparison > Similarity Searching

BLASTOTool Content

http://oxytricha.princeton.edu/BlastO/index.html

BLASTO (BLAST on Orthologous groups) is a modified BLAST tool for searching orthologous group data. It treats each orthologous group as a unit and outputs a ranked list of orthologous groups instead of single sequences.

Onto-ToolsTool Content

http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Projects.html

Onto-Tools is a suite of tools for data mining based on information from Gene Ontology (GO). Onto-Tools includes an annotation database and the data mining tools: Onto-Express, Onto-Compare, Onto-Design, Onto-Translate, Onto-Miner, Pathway-Express, Promoter-Express, nsSNPCounter, TAQ, and OE2GO; free registration is required.

OpenHUSARTool Content

http://genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/cgi-bin/w2h-open/w2h.open/w2h.start...

Open HUSAR (Heidelberg Unix Sequence Analysis Resources) contains suite of bioinformatics pipelines including tasks oriented to protein annotation by homology (ProtSweep), by domain analysis (DomainSweep), and by secondary structure elements (2Dsweep).

T-COFFEETool Content

http://www.tcoffee.org/

The T-COFFEE site includes links to a collection of tools for computing, evaluating, and manipulating multiple alignments of protein sequences and structures. T-COFFEE is a protein multiple sequence alignment tool for sequences with less than 30 percent identity. Expresso (or 3DCoffee) aligns sequences using structural information. M-Coffee is a meta-method for computing multiple sequence alignments by combining alternative alignment methods. Other algorithms provide RNA sequence alignment, and distantly related sequence alignment by homology extension. A consistency based multiple sequence alignment program has been added.

WhETSTool Content

http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/whets/

WhETS (Wheat Estimated Transcript Server) is a resource that combines Triticeae ESTs/mRNAs with rice genes to find the best estimate of hexaploid wheat transcript sequences for a target gene, supplemented with information on tissue distribution and likely gene structure, to aid in primer design.

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