PSORT WWW Server (original) (raw)
PSORT is a computer program for the prediction of protein localization sites in cells. It receives the information of an amino acid sequence and its source orgin, e.g., Gram-negative bacteria, as inputs. Then, it analyzes the input sequence by applying the stored rules for various sequence features of known protein sorting signals. Finally, it reports the possiblity for the input protein to be localized at each candidate site with additional information.
PSORT is mirrored atTokyo,Okazaki, andPeking
- December 1, 1998, Official release of the PSORT II package
- June 1, 1999, K. Nakai moved to Univ. Tokyo
- October 13, 1999, The Web server has been moved from Osaka to Tokyo
- March 11, 2001, Introduction of iPSORT
- September 23, 2001, New mirror site at Peking University
- December 22, 2001, Distribution of caml-iPSORT
- January 18, 2003, Replacing the training data for PSORT II at Peking
- February 22, 2003, Rebuilding the PSORT II server at Tokyo
- April 16, 2003, Minor update of the top page
- November 9, 2003, Minor updates of several pages
- May 27, 2005, Link to WoLF PSORT; update some links
- January 5, 2007, Modification of the link to WolfPSORT
CONTENTS
WoLF PSORT (an update of PSORT II for fungi/animal/plant sequences)
WoLF PSORT Prediction
PSORT II (Recommended for animal/yeast sequences)
PSORT (Old version; for bacterial/plant sequences)
PSORT Users' Manual (WWW version)
iPSORT (Detection of N-terminal sorting signals)
How to Obtain iPSORT (caml-iPSORT)
PSORT-B (Recommended for Gram-negative bacteria)
Other Information
PSORT Users' Manual (e-mail version)
PSORT program was coded by: Kenta Nakai, Ph.D., Human Genome Center, Institute for Medical Science, University ot Tokyo, Japan (knakai@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp). Binary program for Sun/Solaris OS is freely available upon request.
PSORT II is based on the collaboration withPaul Horton (horton-p@aist.go.jp). PSORT II based on the SWISS-PROT data is freely distributed under the GNU General Public License agreement. Send e-mail to: knakai@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jpto get a copy.
iPSORT is based on the collaboration withHideo Bannai(IMS, U. Tokyo; now: Kyushu Univ.), Yoshinori Tamada(IMS, U. Tokyo), Osamu Maruyama(Kyushu U.), and Satoru Miyano(IMS, U. Tokyo). A version of iPSORT, written in the OCaml language, is distributed freely upon request. Contact Bannai for details.
PSORT-B, a program applicable to the sequences of Gram-negative bacteria, is available at the new portal site (www.psort.org) maintained by Fiona Brinkman's laboratory, Simon Fraser U., Canada since July, 2003.
WoLF PSORT, is developed and served by Paul Horton et al. (in collaboration with K. Nakai) at CBRC, AIST, JAPAN since April, 2005.
Notice
YPDlocalization information and title lines are provided by courtesy of Incyte Genomics, Inc.SWISS-PROTis now maintained by the EMBL and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
Special thanks to Minoru Kanehisa for support, to Toshiyuki Okumura, Toshiki Ohkawa, and Tomoki Miwa for technical assistance, and to Amos Bairoch and the people ofIncyte Genomics, Inc. for the allowance of integrating an excerpt of SWISS-PROT and YPD, respectively. The mirror server at Peking is maintained by Yunjia Chen and Jingchu Luo (Thanks!).
Last update: January 5, 2007