GBA manager: an online tool for querying low-complexity regions in proteins

J Comput Biol. 2010 Jan;17(1):73-7. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0006.

Abstract

Abstract We developed GBA Manager, an online software that facilitates the Graph-Based Algorithm (GBA) we proposed in our earlier work. GBA identifies the low-complexity regions (LCR) of protein sequences. GBA exploits a similarity matrix, such as BLOSUM62, to compute the complexity of the subsequences of the input protein sequence. It uses a graph-based algorithm to accurately compute the regions that have low complexities. GBA Manager is a user friendly web-service that enables online querying of protein sequences using GBA. In addition to querying capabilities of the existing GBA algorithm, GBA Manager computes the p-values of the LCR identified. The p-value gives an estimate of the possibility that the region appears by chance. GBA Manager presents the output in three different understandable formats. GBA Manager is freely accessible at http://bioinformatics.cise.ufl.edu/GBA/GBA.htm .

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software*

Substances

  • Proteins