Related Experiment Video
Updated: Apr 20, 2026

Biomimetic Materials to Characterize Bacteria-host Interactions
Published on: November 16, 2015
mimicMe: a web server for prediction and analysis of host-like proteins in microbial pathogens
Pavel Petrenko1, Andrew C Doxey1
1Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Summary:
mimicMe is a web server for prediction and analysis of host-like proteins (mimics) encoded by microbial pathogens. Users select a host species and any set of pathogen and control proteomes (bacterial, fungal, protozoan or viral) and mimicMe reports host-like proteins that are unique to or enriched among pathogens. Additional server features include visualization of structural similarities between pathogen and host proteins as well as function-enrichment analysis.
Availability And Implementation:
mimicMe is available at http://mimicme.uwaterloo.ca
Contact:
acdoxey@uwaterloo.ca.

