NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection entry number 844

http://mulpssm.mbu.iisc.ernet.in/

Gayatri R., Mohanty S., Mudgal R., Krishnadev O., and Srinivasan N.

Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Contact ns@mbu.iisc.ernet.in

Representation of multiple sequence alignments of protein families in terms of Position Specific Scoring Matrices (PSSMs) is commonly used in the detection of remote homologues. A PSSM is generated with respect to one of the sequences involved in the multiple sequence alignment as a reference. We have shown earlier that use of multiple PSSMs corresponding to an alignment, with several sequences in the family used as reference, improves the sensitivity of the remote homology detection dramatically [1,2]. MulPSSM contains PSSMs for a large number of sequence and structural families of protein domains with multiple PSSMs for every family [3]. The approach involves use of a clustering algorithm to identify most distinct sequences corresponding to a family. With each one of the distinct sequences as reference, multiple PSSMs have been generated.

The current release of MulPSSM contains 304,570 PSSMs corresponding to 12,273 sequence based families from Pfam (version 25.0). 14235 PSSMs corresponding to 3856 structural families in SCOP (Version 1.75) [5]. A RPS-BLAST [6,7] interface allows sequence search against PSSMs of sequence or structural families or both. The presentation of data has been done using dynamic HTML. There is also an option to obtain the results of the RPS-BLAST as a dendrogram. Such a dendrogram will enable the users in better understanding of the relationship amongst the query and the various hits, along with an ease with which users can identify closely and remotely related hits to the query. An analysis interface allows display and convenient navigation of alignments and domain hits.

This work is supported by Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi.

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