Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on June 1, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm352
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MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences
1Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Vital-IT Group, UNIL-Génopode, CH-1015 Lausanne, 2Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), EMBnet Group, UNIL-Génopode, CH-1015 Lausanne, 3Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Swiss-Prot Group, UNIGE-CMU, CH-1211 Genève 4, 4Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UNIL-Génopode, CH-1015 Lausanne and 5Nestlé Research Center, Department of BioAnalytical Science, PO Box 44, CH-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +41-21-692-40-38; Fax: +41-21-692-40-65; Email: marco.pagni{at}isb-sib.ch
Received January 31, 2007. Revised April 23, 2007. Accepted April 23, 2007.
The MyHits web site (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is an integrated service dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences. Since its first description in 2004, both the user interface and the back end of the server were improved. A number of tools (e.g. MAFFT, Jacop, Dotlet, Jalview, ESTScan) were added or updated to improve the usability of the service. The MySQL schema and its associated API were revamped and the database engine (HitKeeper) was separated from the web interface. This paper summarizes the current status of the server, with an emphasis on the new services.