The Berkeley Phylogenomics Group provides a series of
web servers for phylogenomic analysis: classification of sequences to pre-computed families and subfamilies using the PhyloFacts Phylogenomic Encyclopedia, FlowerPower clustering of proteins sharing the same domain architecture, MUSCLE multiple sequence alignment, SATCHMO simultaneous alignment and tree construction, and SCI-PHY subfamily identification.
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.
The CHAOS/DIALIGN WWW server is a multiple sequence alignment site which passes input sequences through CHAOS to create a list of local similarites. These similarities serve as anchor points, allowing DIALIGN to conduct global alignments faster. ABC can then be used for the interactive visualization of the alignment.
ClusPro is a tool for automatically computing the docking of two protein structures supplied by the user (or as PDB IDs). The result set is a ranked list of putative complexes, ordered by clustering properties.
COMPASS (Comparison of Multiple Protein Alignments with Assessment of Statistical Significance) is a tool for detecting remote levels of sequence similarity using profile-based comparison of multiple sequence alignments. Statistics and speed have been improved, and visualization tools introduced.
Cleaved Radioactivity of Phosphopeptides (CRP) performs in silico proteolytic cleavage of protein sequences and reports the radioactivity that would be observed if a given serine, threonine or tyrosine were phosphorylated.
DIAL (Domain Identification Algorithm) is a web server for the automatic identification of structural domains given the three-dimensional coordinates of a protein.
Multiple alignment program which assembles a global sequence alignment from gap-free local pairwise alignments. This method could be especially useful when comparing large sequences that have only local similarities.
ENDEAVOUR is a computational approach to prioritize candidate genes for further study. Users input training genes already known to be involved in the process under study and the candidate genes to prioritize. The web server supports multiple species and integrates multiple genomic data to generate the final prioritization.
ENDEAVOUR has been benchmarked in silico and experimentally validated leading to the discovery of novel disease genes in several genetic diseases.