PHISTO: pathogen-host interaction search tool
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A Comparative Approach to Characterize the Landscape of Host-Pathogen Protein-Protein Interactions
Published on: July 18, 2013
Saliha Durmuş Tekir1, Tunahan Çakır, Emre Ardiç
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Boğaziçi University, 34342 Bebek, Sarıyer, İstanbul, Turkey. saliha.durmus@boun.edu.tr
Summary:
Knowledge of pathogen-host protein interactions is required to better understand infection mechanisms. The pathogen-host interaction search tool (PHISTO) is a web-accessible platform that provides relevant information about pathogen-host interactions (PHIs). It enables access to the most up-to-date PHI data for all pathogen types for which experimentally verified protein interactions with human are available. The platform also offers integrated tools for visualization of PHI networks, graph-theoretical analysis of targeted human proteins, BLAST search and text mining for detecting missing experimental methods. PHISTO will facilitate PHI studies that provide potential therapeutic targets for infectious diseases.
Availability:
http://www.phisto.org.
Contact:
saliha.durmus@boun.edu.tr
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
