The blobulator: a toolkit for identification and visual exploration of hydrophobic modularity in protein sequences.

ABSTRACT: While contiguous subsequences of hydrophobic residues are essential to protein structure and function, as in the hydrophobic core and transmembrane regions, there are no current bioinformatics tools for module identification focused on hydrophobicity. To fill this gap, we created the blobulator toolkit for detecting, visualizing, and characterizing hydrophobic modules in protein sequences. This toolkit uses our previously developed algorithm, blobulation, which was critical in both interpreting intra-protein contacts in a series of intrinsically disordered protein simulations [1] and defining the "local context" around disease-associated mutations across the human proteome [2]. The blobulator toolkit provides accessible, interactive, and scalable implementations of blobulatio

SUBMITTER: Pitman C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10827107 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature