DiffTool: building, visualizing and querying protein clusters.
DiffTool is a resource to build and visualize protein clusters computed from a sequence database. The package provides a clustering tool to construct protein families according to sequence similarities and a web interface to query the corresponding clusters. A subtractive genome analysis tool selects protein families specific for a genome or a group of genomes. For each protein cluster, DiffTool includes access to sequences, coloured multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees.


BACKGROUND
A cluster database built from yeast and complete prokaryotic genomes is queryable at http://bioweb.pasteur.fr/seqanal/difftool. All the Perl sources are freely available to non-profit organizations upon request.
Chetouani
Farid
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Laboratoire Génomique des Microorganismes Pathogénes, Institut Pasteur, Département de Biologie Moléculaire, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. fchetou@infobiogen.fr
Glaser
Philippe
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Kunst
Frank
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D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016678:Genome; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D017385:Sequence Homology; D012984:Software