PLecDom: a program for identification and analysis of plant lectin domains.

ABSTRACT: PLecDom is a program for detection of Plant Lectin Domains in a polypeptide or EST sequence, followed by a classification of the identified domains into known families. The web server is a collection of plant lectin domain families represented by alignments and profile Hidden Markov Models. PLecDom was developed after a rigorous analysis of evolutionary relationships between available sequences of lectin domains with known specificities. Users can test their sequences for potential lectin domains, catalog the identified domains into broad substrate classes, estimate the extent of divergence of new domains with existing homologs, extract domain boundaries and examine flanking sequences for further analysis. The high prediction accuracy of PLecDom combined with the ease with which it handles

SUBMITTER: Shridhar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2703983 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature