Would you like your protein or DNA sequences to be automatically identified, analyzed, and annotated?
If so, then you might be interested in the Bioinformatics Tools of the Month: SeqFacts, a tool for sequence identification, analysis, characterization and annotation.
Software demonstration
Irit Orr will give a presentation about SeqFacts on Thursday, 27 January, at 10:00, in the Levine Building, conference room 101. Please join us to learn more about using these tools to analyze your sequences.
Features
SeqFacts is an integrated system that reports a wide variety of information about a sequence, including: potential function and related genes, diseases in which it might be involved, known targets, similar sequences in PDB and SwissProt, prediction about whether or not the protein will fold, conserved domains, protein extinction coefficient, theoretical molecular weight and pI, and relevant PubMed entries.You can have your sequence analyzed automatically by SeqFacts in two ways:
- Browse to open in new window/sqfbin/seqfacts
- Mark the SeqFacts checkbox when you place an order with the WIS DNA sequencing service
The SeqFacts server will run a series of routine sequence cleaning, vector removal, six frame translation, composition analysis, validations, and web searches starting from the sequence you provide and building, whenever possible, on top of intermediate results. For example, it will compare your sequence against genome specific databases of similar organisms. You may browse a sample SeqFacts report at open in new window/sqfdoc/testSequence/
SeqFacts was developed by Jaime Prilusky of the WIS Bioinformatics Unit.