ProtVista Visualize all the protein information!
ProtVista Visualize all the protein information! As we continue to pile new genome and protein sequences into all these databases we have to come up with something better than just text sequences. You could argue that the few graphical sequence tools out there could use a refresh as well. Im happy to see that people are actively working on this stuff! Proof is in this extremely short open access paper in Bioinformatics! It details this new visualization tool, what resources it uses, where to download it and the source code but the coolest info in the paper (to me, anyway!) is that it is already in use by multiple tools we all already use! To verify I went after a protein I studied for a while, typed it into Uniprot -- and BOOM! Once you find the protein (and correct species) click the accession ID then click Feature Viewer and you get the ProtVista results! This isnt just colorful, its super useful. For example, if you click on PTMs, it expands and you get all these little symbols Hove...