BAR-PLUS: the Bologna Annotation Resource Plus for functional and structural annotation of protein sequences

Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jul;39(Web Server issue):W197-202. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr292. Epub 2011 May 26.

Abstract

We introduce BAR-PLUS (BAR(+)), a web server for functional and structural annotation of protein sequences. BAR(+) is based on a large-scale genome cross comparison and a non-hierarchical clustering procedure characterized by a metric that ensures a reliable transfer of features within clusters. In this version, the method takes advantage of a large-scale pairwise sequence comparison of 13,495,736 protein chains also including 988 complete proteomes. Available sequence annotation is derived from UniProtKB, GO, Pfam and PDB. When PDB templates are present within a cluster (with or without their SCOP classification), profile Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are computed on the basis of sequence to structure alignment and are cluster-associated (Cluster-HMM). Therefrom, a library of 10,858 HMMs is made available for aligning even distantly related sequences for structural modelling. The server also provides pairwise query sequence-structural target alignments computed from the correspondent Cluster-HMM. BAR(+) in its present version allows three main categories of annotation: PDB [with or without SCOP (*)] and GO and/or Pfam; PDB (*) without GO and/or Pfam; GO and/or Pfam without PDB (*) and no annotation. Each category can further comprise clusters where GO and Pfam functional annotations are or are not statistically significant. BAR(+) is available at http://bar.biocomp.unibo.it/bar2.0.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cluster Analysis
  • Internet
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation*
  • Protein Conformation*
  • Proteins / physiology
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein*
  • Software*

Substances

  • Proteins