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An Integrated Approach for Microprotein Identification and Sequence Analysis
Published on: July 12, 2022
MulPSSM: a database of multiple position-specific scoring matrices of protein domain families
V S Gowri1, O Krishnadev, C S Swamy
1Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Abstract:
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 recently that the 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. MulPSSM contains PSSMs for a large number of sequence and structural families of protein domains with multiple PSSMs for every family. 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 approximately 33,000 and approximately 38,000 PSSMs corresponding to 7868 sequence and 2625 structural families. A RPS_BLAST interface allows sequence search against PSSMs of sequence or structural families or both. An analysis interface allows display and convenient navigation of alignments and domain hits. MulPSSM can be accessed at http://crick.mbu.iisc.ernet.in/~mulpssm.
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