title: PLANET: a phage library analysis expert tool.
abstract: In recent years random peptide libraries displayed on filamentous phage have been widely used and new ideas and techniques are continuously developing in the field (1-5). Notwithstanding this growing interest in the technique and in its promising results, and the enormous increase in usage and scope, very little effort has been devoted to the implementation of software able to handle and analyze the growing number of phage library-derived sequences. In our laboratory, phage libraries are extensively used and peptide sequences are continuously produced, so that the need arose of creating a database (6) to collect all the experimental results in a format compatible with GCG sequence analysis packages (7). We present here the description of an XWindow-based software package named PLANET (Phage Library ANalysis Expert Tool) devoted to the maintenance and statistical analysis of the database.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare (I.R.B.M.), Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Leplae
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tramontano
mesh_terms: D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D015723:Gene Library; D007256:Information Systems