Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families.
A tool for the detection of conserved residue clusters from an input PDB file. Structural properties of each residue, such as solvent accessibility (ASA), secondary structure, conservation score etc. and the conserved residue clusters are also computed.
corRna is a web server for predicting the multiple point deleterious mutations in structural RNAs. Users can apply search heuristics to improve the quality of the predictions.
COSMIC curates comprehensive information on somatic mutations in human cancer. Release v48 (July 2010) describes over 136,000 coding mutations in almost 542,000 tumour samples; of the 18,490 genes documented, 4803 (26%) have one or more mutations. Full scientific literature curations are available on 83 major cancer genes and 49 fusion gene pairs. Biomart allows more automated data mining and integration with other biological databases. Annotation of genomic features has become a significant focus. COSMIC integrates many diverse types of mutation information and is making much closer links with Ensembl and other data resources.
DBASS3 and DBASS5 provide comprehensive repositories of new exon boundaries that were induced by pathogenic mutations in human disease genes. Aberrant 5'- and 3'-splice sites were activated either by mutations in the consensus sequences of natural exon-intron junctions (cryptic sites) or elsewhere ('de novo' sites). DBASS3 and DBASS5 data can be searched by disease phenotype, gene, mutation, location of aberrant splice sites in introns and exons and their distance from authentic counterparts, by bibliographic references and by the splice-site strength estimated with several prediction algorithms. The user can also retrieve reference sequences of both aberrant and authentic splice sites with the underlying mutation.
Domain Interaction MAp (DIMA) is a database of predicted and known interactions between protein domains. It integrates 5807 structurally known interactions imported from the iPfam and 3did databases and 46,900 domain interactions predicted by four computational methods: domain phylogenetic profiling, domain pair exclusion algorithm correlated mutations and domain interaction prediction in a discriminative way. Additionally predictions are filtered to exclude those domain pairs that are reported as non-interacting by the Negatome database. The DIMA Web site allows to calculate domain interaction networks either for a domain of interest or for entire organisms, and to explore them interactively using the Flash-based Cytoscape Web software.
DrugScorePPI web server performs alanine scanning within a given protein-protein complex in silico. Useful for guiding biological experiments and in the development of protein-protein interaction modulators.
A suite of tools for immunological research. EpiToolKit offers a variety of prediction methods that may be run simultaneously for predicting MHC Class I and II ligands, and minor histocompatibility antigens. The influence of sequence polymorphisms or mutations on potential T-cell epitopes may also be examined.
Evolutionary trace (ET) report maker pools information from different sources including databases and on-the-fly multiple sequence analysis to produce a pdf formatted document as output. The emphasis is on prediction of functional sites of proteins.
FlyBase is a database of genetic and molecular data for Drosophila. FlyBase includes data on all species from the family Drosophilidae; the primary species represented is Drosophila melanogaster.
GLUE, PEDEL, and DRIVeR are tools for estimating completeness and diversity in randomized protein-encoding libraries; useful for guiding library design and for analyzing results. GLUE Including Translation (GLUE-IT) finds the expected amino acid completeness of libraries. PEDEL-AA calculates amino acid statistics for libraries generated by epPCR.