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ArticleThe FEBS journal2012

BioV Suite--a collection of programs for the study of transport protein evolution.

Vamsee S Reddy, Milton H Saier

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2 authors.

Vamsee S ReddyDivision of Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Milton H Saier

Funding

The Transporter Classification Database (TCDB)R01GM077402 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SAIER, MILTON H. · 2006 to 2021
$4.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM077402NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM077402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Bio-V Suite is a collection of Python scripts designed specifically for bioinformatic research regarding transport protein evolution. The Bio-V Suite contains nine powerful programs for Unix-based environments, each of which can be run as a standalone tool or be accessed in a programmatic manner. These programs and their functions are as follows. The transmembrane alpha-helical statistical prediction tool (TMStats) generates topological statistics for transport proteins. The Global Sequence Alignment Tool (GSAT) performs shuffle-based binary alignments and is fully scalable. It can cross-compare two FASTA files or individual sequences. Protocol1 performs remote PSI-Blast searches and filters redundant/similar sequences and annotates them. Protocol2 finds homologues between FASTA lists and generates graphical reports. The Targeted Smith-Waterman Search (TSSearch) uses a rapid search algorithm to find distant homologues in FASTA files in a heuristic manner. SSearch is the exhaustive version of TSSearch. Genome-Blast (GBlast) will identify potential transport proteins in any genome/proteome file or find similar transport protein homologues between two different genomes/proteomes before generating a graphical report. AncientRep (AR) will find putative transmembrane repeat units using a list of homologues. DefineFamily (DF) will generate a FASTA list to represent an entire Transporter Classification family. These nine programs are tabulated with descriptions of their capabilities in Table 1. [Table: see text].

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Computational BiologySoftwareAlgorithmsBase SequenceCarrier ProteinsDatabases, GeneticEvolution, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataSequence AlignmentSequence Homology, Amino AcidCarrier Proteins

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PMID22568782
PMCPMC3978091

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