Web Servers
The Bioinformatics Group places a great deal of emphasis on developing Web services which are widely used by many groups and institutions. These include psipred, genTHREADER and disopred. We additionally offer all our servers via SOAP and XML-RPC (see these instructions for details). If you wish to link to our servers please feel free to do so, you may wish to read our Smart Links guide for further information. For commercial enquiries about our software services, please visit Ebisu
Protein Fold Recognition
These methods will identify putative folds and structural domains for a sequence without known structure.
| GenTHREADER | Rapid fold recognition, matching your sequence against a library of whole PDB chains. |
| pGenTHREADER | Highly sensitive fold recognition using profile-profile comparison (whole chain library). |
| pDomTHREADER | Highly sensitive homologous domain recognition using profile-profile comparison (domain library). |
Protein Structure Feature Recognition
These methods annotate sequences with the location of important structural features.
| PSIPRED | Accurate protein secondary structure prediction. |
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| METSITE | A method for identifying metal binding sites in protein 3D structures |
Transmembrane Topology Prediction
These methods identify the topology of putative transmembrane proteins.
| MEMSAT3 | Transmembrane protein topology predcition. |
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| MEMSATSVM | Improved transmembrane protein topology prediction using SVMs. This method is capable of differentiating signal peptides from transmembrane helices. |
| MEMEMBED | Prediction of Membrane protein orientation. |
3D Protein Modelling
Our latest experimental method will generate a homology model for a given sequence.
| BioSerf | Automated homology and de-novo modelling server, utilising Modeller, PSIBLAST, pGenTHREADER and HHBlits. |
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| DomSerf | Automated homology modelling of protein domains. |
Annotation of Protein Sequence Features
These methods identify protein sequence features which are important for protein structure and function.
| DomPred | Identifies putative domain boundaries in sequences. |
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| DISOPRED | Identifies residues which are likely to be natively unfolded (disordered). |
Protein Interface Characterisation
Characterisation of protein-protein interfaces.
| HSPred | Interface Hot Spot Prediction |
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Function Prediction
Feature-based protein function prediction from amino acid sequence.
| FFPred | Integrated function prediction |
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Web Services
We now offer all our online methods as SOAP and XML-RPC web services. Please read the Web Service notes before using
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| WSDL | WSDL for our services |
Legacy Services
The following services are unmaintained and due to be retired. Data and access is provided on an "as is" basis.
| GTD | Genomic Threading Database |
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| COPS | Comparison Of Protein Structure classifications |