SLiMSearch: A webserver for finding novel occurrences of short linear motifs in proteins, incorporating sequence context

Norman E. Davey, Niall J. Haslam, Denis C. Shields, Richard J. Edwards

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Abstract

Short, linear motifs (SLiMs) play a critical role in many biological processes. The SLiMSearch (Short, Linear Motif Search) webserver is a flexible tool that enables researchers to identify novel occurrences of pre-defined SLiMs in sets of proteins. Numerous masking options give the user great control over the contextual information to be included in the analyses, including evolutionary filtering and protein structural disorder. User-friendly output and visualizations of motif context allow the user to quickly gain insight into the validity of a putatively functional motif occurrence. Users can search motifs against the human proteome, or submit their own datasets of UniProt proteins, in which case motif support within the dataset is statistically assessed for over- and under-representation, accounting for evolutionary relationships between input proteins. SLiMSearch is freely available as open source Python modules and all webserver results are available for download. The SLiMSearch server is available at: http://bioware.ucd.ie/slimsearch.html.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition in Bioinformatics - 5th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2010, Proceedings
Pages50-61
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event5th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics - Nijmegen, Netherlands
Duration: 22 Sept 201024 Sept 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6282 LNBI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference5th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
Abbreviated titlePRIB 2010
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityNijmegen
Period22/09/1024/09/10

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