2011年4月22日 星期五

DNA Motif Discovery

1. Motif finding - MEME
http://meme.nbcr.net/meme4_6_1/cgi-bin/meme.cgi

2. Get results


3. Pick TOMTOM icon for known transcription factor identify.

Blast

1. Download blast program from follow web
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/

2. Download "NR" database from same web

3. Install ncbi-blast-2.2.25+-win32.exe

4. In windows "command mode " -->

cd C:\Program Files\NCBI\blast-2.2.25+\bin

5. Create XXX database
makeblastdb.exe -in XXX.fsa -dbtype nucl -out XXX.out

** nulc: nucleotide prot: protein

6. Nucleotide Blast
blastn.exe -query test.fsa -db XXX.out -out test.out
or
blastn.exe -query test.fsa -db XXX.out -outfmt 6 -out test.out
or
blastn.exe -query test.fsa -db XXX.out -num_alignments 3 -num_descriptions 3 -evalue 1e-20 -out test.out


**test.fsa can use multiple sequences


Other information:
BLAST Command Line Applications User Manual --> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1763/

2011年4月13日 星期三

Antigenic sites

Analysis of data from experimentally determined antigenic sites on proteins has revealed that the hydrophobic residues Cys, Leu and Val, if they occur on the surface of a protein, are more likely to be a part of antigenic sites. (Ref: memboss)