Dasty and UniProt DAS: a perfect pair for protein feature visualization

  • Authors:
  • Philip Jones;Nisha Vinod;Thomas Down;Andre Hackmann;Andreas Kahari;Ernst Kretschmann;Antony Quinn;Daniela Wieser;Henning Hermjakob;Rolf Apweiler

  • Affiliations:
  • EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK;EMBL Outstation---European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Summary: In this study, we present two freely available and complementary Distributed Annotation System (DAS) resources: a DAS reference server that provides up-to-date sequence and annotation from UniProt, with additional feature links and database cross-references from InterPro and a DAS client implemented using Java and Macromedia Flash that is optimized for the display of protein features. Availability: The Dasty DAS client is freely available at the following URLs: Dasty DAS Client (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/uniprot/dasty/), Dasty Example Query (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/uniprot/dasty/index.jsp?ID=Q24488), UniProt DAS Service (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/uniprot/das), Dasty Documentation (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/dasty/) and UniProt DAS Documentation (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/uniprot-das/). It is intended that the Dasty client package and source code will be available for download and local installation in the coming weeks. The UniProt DAS reference server and the associated documentation can be freely accessed via the EBI site at the given link. Contact: For further details of the Dasty client, please contact N.V. (nvinod@ebi.ac.uk). For further details of the UniProt DAS server, please contact P.J. (pjones@ebi.ac.uk).