ANTHEPROT: an integrated protein sequence analysis software with client/server capabilities.
Programs devoted to the analysis of protein sequences exist either as stand-alone programs or as Web servers. However, stand-alone programs can hardly accommodate for the analysis that involves comparisons on databanks, which require regular updates. Moreover, Web servers cannot be as efficient as stand-alone programs when dealing with real-time graphic display. We describe here a stand-alone software program called ANTHEPROT, which is intended to perform protein sequence analysis with a high integration level and clients/server capabilities. It is an interactive program with a graphical user interface that allows handling of protein sequence and data in a very interactive and convenient manner. It provides many methods and tools, which are integrated into a graphical user interface. ANTHEPROT is available for Windows-based systems. It is able to connect to a Web server in order to perform large-scale sequence comparison on up-to-date databanks. ANTHEPROT is freely available to academic users and may be downloaded at http://pbil.ibcp.fr/ANTHEPROT.
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Pôle Bioinformatique Lyonnais, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, CNRS UMR 5086 Bioinformatique et RMN structurales, 7, Passage du Vercors, 69 367 Lyon, Cedex 07, France. g.deleage@ibcp.fr
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D000465:Algorithms; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface