title: FAN: fingerprint analysis of nucleotide sequences.
abstract: FAN is a server for fingerprint analysis of nucleotide sequences. The server performs a search of submitted nucleotide sequences against the PRINTS database. Searches are performed directly against fingerprints using a codon position specific score matrix (PSSM) approach. The advantages of this approach are increased specificity for coding sequence (CDS) over non-CDS, and increased tolerance to base-substituting and frameshifting sequence errors. Furthermore, there is no need for prior translation of the nucleotide sequences. A web-based interface to the software is available at http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/neil/ntfront.pl.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences and Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. neil@bioinf.man.ac.uk
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maudling
authors.forename: Teresa K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Attwood
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D003062:Codon; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000737:chemistry; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D012333:RNA, Messenger