In article <1993Feb12.170054 at helix.nih.gov> jip at helix.nih.gov (John Powell) writes:
>We have a researcher who needs for software to scan an amino acid
>sequence to locate possible sites for glycosylation, phosphorylation,
>and other post-translational modifications.
>>Do any of the protein sequence analysis packages do this?
>>[....]
There are two pieces of software which will do this for you available
by gopher or ftp.
For Unix or Vax/VMS you can get prosearch2.1 and for the Macintosh there's
Macpattern both of which will allow you to scan your sequence against the
prosite database (a database of the wide variety of patterns which indidcate
potential sites for post-translational modifications).
You can get the latest version of the Prosite Database, Prosearch, and
Macpattern by gopher or by anonymous ftp.
Prosite:
Gopher:
Point your gopher client at merlot.welch.jhu.edu and go to the following
directories:
--> 2. FTP Sites For Biology/
24. NCBI Repository FTP Archive /
--> 29. prosite/
Ftp: anonymous ftp to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Prosearch:
Gopher:
--> 2. FTP Sites For Biology/
--> 18. IUBio-Software+Data (Indiana)/
--> 9. molbio/
--> 17. search/
--> 24. prosearch2.1.shar
Ftp: anonymous ftp to ftp.bio.indiana.edu
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Macpattern:
Gopher:
--> 2. FTP Sites For Biology/
--> 9. EMBL software (Heidelberg)/
4. software/
--> 2. mac/
--> 40. macpattern.hqx <HQX>
Ftp: anonymous ftp to ftp.embl-heidelberg.de
Best of luck,
Dan Jacobson
danj at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
