DiffTool: building, visualizing and querying protein clusters

Bioinformatics. 2002 Aug;18(8):1143-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.8.1143.

Abstract

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.

Availability: 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.

MeSH terms

  • Cluster Analysis*
  • Computer Graphics
  • Database Management Systems*
  • Databases, Protein*
  • Genome
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Internet
  • Sequence Alignment / methods
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Sequence Homology
  • Software*