[BiO BB] profile search

pmr at ebi.ac.uk pmr at ebi.ac.uk
Fri Jun 24 16:29:14 EDT 2005


Lily (l x yi) writes:

> Does anyone know any software that does profile (weight matrix) search? In
> this case, the input is the weight matrix, and the pgm would search
> through databank such as swissprot to find related sequences?

EMBOSS includes the "profit" program to do this. The profile/weight matrix
can be generated with the EMBOSS "prophecy" program or produced in a
compatible format by other programs.

The EMBOSS home page is http://emboss.sourceforge.net/

Hope this helps,

Peter Rice




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