title: MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences.
abstract: The MyHits web site (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is an integrated service dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences. Since its first description in 2004, both the user interface and the back end of the server were improved. A number of tools (e.g. MAFFT, Jacop, Dotlet, Jalview, ESTScan) were added or updated to improve the usability of the service. The MySQL schema and its associated API were revamped and the database engine (HitKeeper) was separated from the web interface. This paper summarizes the current status of the server, with an emphasis on the new services.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Vital-IT Group, UNIL-Génopode, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pagni
authors.forename: Vassilios
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ioannidis
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cerutti
authors.forename: Monique
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zahn-Zabal
authors.forename: C Victor
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Jongeneel
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hau
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Dmitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kuznetsov
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Falquet
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface