Using the AnDom-Sever

Description

This WEB tool helps to assign structual domains to protein sequences and to classify them according to SCOP.

Input Format

Protein identifiers

Accepted are accession-no or protein-identifier like:

KPY1_ECOLI or P14178 or 2506795

Protein sequence

You can paste your sequence either in FASTA-format or simply the bare sequence. A sequence in FASTA format starts with the character '>' followed by a single-line description of the sequence. The following lines then contain the sequence.

Parameters

Method

NEW (010803)

Choose between the program IMPALA or RPS-BLAST (Reverse PSI-BLAST)



Excerpt from README.rps provided with the blast-package:

RPS-BLAST (Reverse PSI-BLAST) searches a query sequence against a database of profiles. This is the opposite of PSI-BLAST that searches a profile against a database of sequences, hence the 'Reverse'. RPS-BLAST uses a BLAST-like algorithm, finding single- or double-word hits and then performing an ungapped extension on these candidate matches. If a sufficiently high-scoring ungapped alignment is produced, a gapped extension is performed and those (gapped) alignments with sufficiently low expect value are reported. This procedure is in contrast to IMPALA that performs a Smith-Waterman calculation between the query and each profile, rather than using a word-hit approach to identify matches that should be extended.

Database

Here you can choose between different versions of SCOP. For each version PSSMs were newly calculated.

Note! The classification of structual domains in SCOP may change between different versions.

Expect

Here you can set the statistical significance threshold for reporting hits against the database.

Filter

The SEG filter (Wootton & Federhen, 1993) mask off segments of the query sequence that have low compositional complexity.
Steffen Schmidt
Last modified: Wed May 26 10:12:04 EDT 2004