InterProScan – an integration platform for the signature-recognition methods in InterPro

Zdobnov, Evgeni M.
Apweiler, Rolf

EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

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Received on August 2, 2000; revised on January 12, 2001; accepted on May 30, 2001

Bioinformatics 17(9):p 847-848, September 2001.

Summary

InterProScan is a tool that scans given protein sequences against the protein signatures of the InterPro member databases, currently – PROSITE, PRINTS, Pfam, ProDom and SMART. The number of signature databases and their associated scanning tools as well as the further refinement procedures make the problem complex. Inter-ProScan is designed to be a scalable and extensible system with a robust internal architecture.

Availability

The Perl-based InterProScan implementation is available from the EBI ftp server (ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/unix/iprscan/) and the SRS-based InterProScan is available upon request. We provide the public web interface (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/scan.html) as well as email submission server ([email protected]).

Contact

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