InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification

Bioinformatics. 2014 May 1;30(9):1236-40. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu031. Epub 2014 Jan 21.

Abstract

Robust large-scale sequence analysis is a major challenge in modern genomic science, where biologists are frequently trying to characterize many millions of sequences. Here, we describe a new Java-based architecture for the widely used protein function prediction software package InterProScan. Developments include improvements and additions to the outputs of the software and the complete reimplementation of the software framework, resulting in a flexible and stable system that is able to use both multiprocessor machines and/or conventional clusters to achieve scalable distributed data analysis. InterProScan is freely available for download from the EMBl-EBI FTP site and the open source code is hosted at Google Code.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Arabidopsis / chemistry
  • Arabidopsis / genetics
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Genome*
  • Genomics / methods*
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / methods*
  • Programming Languages
  • Proteins / analysis*
  • Proteins / genetics
  • Proteins / metabolism
  • Software

Substances

  • Proteins