Skip Navigation

Nucleic Acids Research 2006 34(Web Server issue):W335-W339; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl217
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow Print PDF (1819K) Freely available
Right arrow Screen PDF (775K) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Commercial Re-use Guidelines
for Open Access NAR Content
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Biegert, A.
Right arrow Articles by Lupas, A. N.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Biegert, A.
Right arrow Articles by Lupas, A. N.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
The online version of this article has been published under an open access model. Users are entitled to use, reproduce, disseminate, or display the open access version of this article for non-commercial purposes provided that: the original authorship is properly and fully attributed; the Journal and Oxford University Press are attributed as the original place of publication with the correct citation details given; if an article is subsequently reproduced or disseminated not in its entirety but only in part or as a derivative work this must be clearly indicated. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Article

The MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit for protein sequence analysis

Andreas Biegert*, Christian Mayer, Michael Remmert, Johannes Söding and Andrei N. Lupas

Department of protein Evolution, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology Spemannstrasse 35, 72076 Tubingen, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 7071 601 342; Fax +49 7071 601 349; Email: andreas.biegert{at}tuebingen.mpg.de

Received February 14, 2006. Revised March 24, 2006. Accepted March 24, 2006.

The MPI Bioinformatics Toolkit is an interactive web service which offers access to a great variety of public and in-house bioinformatics tools. They are grouped into different sections that support sequence searches, multiple alignment, secondary and tertiary structure prediction and classification. Several public tools are offered in customized versions that extend their functionality. For example, PSI-BLAST can be run against regularly updated standard databases, customized user databases or selectable sets of genomes. Another tool, Quick2D, integrates the results of various secondary structure, transmembrane and disorder prediction programs into one view. The Toolkit provides a friendly and intuitive user interface with an online help facility. As a key feature, various tools are interconnected so that the results of one tool can be forwarded to other tools. One could run PSI-BLAST, parse out a multiple alignment of selected hits and send the results to a cluster analysis tool. The Toolkit framework and the tools developed in-house will be packaged and freely available under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The Toolkit can be accessed at http://toolkit.tuebingen.mpg.de.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 BioinformaticsHome page
P. Szczesny and A. Lupas
Domain annotation of trimeric autotransporter adhesins--daTAA
Bioinformatics, May 15, 2008; 24(10): 1251 - 1256.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Nucleic Acids ResHome page
M. Pagni, V. Ioannidis, L. Cerutti, M. Zahn-Zabal, C. V. Jongeneel, J. Hau, O. Martin, D. Kuznetsov, and L. Falquet
MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences
Nucleic Acids Res., July 13, 2007; 35(suppl_2): W433 - W437.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.