MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences

Marco Pagni; Vassilios Ioannidis; Lorenzo Cerutti; Monique Zahn-Zabal; C Victor Jongeneel; Jörg Hau; Olivier Martin; Dmitri Kuznetsov; Laurent Falquet

doi:10.1093/nar/gkm352

MyHits: improvements to an interactive resource for analyzing protein sequences

Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Jul;35(Web Server issue):W433-7. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkm352. Epub 2007 Jun 1.

Authors

Marco Pagni¹, Vassilios Ioannidis, Lorenzo Cerutti, Monique Zahn-Zabal, C Victor Jongeneel, Jörg Hau, Olivier Martin, Dmitri Kuznetsov, Laurent Falquet

Affiliation

¹ Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Vital-IT Group, UNIL-Génopode, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Abstract

The MyHits web site (http://myhits.isb-sib.ch) is an integrated service dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences. Since its first description in 2004, both the user interface and the back end of the server were improved. A number of tools (e.g. MAFFT, Jacop, Dotlet, Jalview, ESTScan) were added or updated to improve the usability of the service. The MySQL schema and its associated API were revamped and the database engine (HitKeeper) was separated from the web interface. This paper summarizes the current status of the server, with an emphasis on the new services.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computational Biology / methods*
Computer Graphics
Databases, Protein
Internet
Programming Languages
Protein Structure, Tertiary*
Sequence Alignment
Sequence Analysis, Protein*
Software*
Systems Integration
User-Computer Interface