The ConSeq methodology, a description of its performance in a set of five well-documented proteins, a comparison to other methods, and the outcome of its application to a set of 111 proteins of unknown function, are presented at http://conseq.bioinfo.tau.ac.il/ under 'OVERVIEW', 'VALIDATION', 'COMPARISON' and 'PREDICTIONS', respectively.
Regulation of gene expression is executed in many cases by RNA-binding proteins
(RBPs) that bind to mRNAs as well as to non-coding RNAs. RBPs recognize their
RNA target via specific binding sites on the RNA. Predicting the binding sites
of RBPs is known to be a major challenge. We present a new webserver, RBPmap,
freely accessible through the website http://rbpmap.technion.ac.il/ for accurate prediction and
mapping of RBP binding sites. RBPmap has been developed specifically for mapping
RBPs in human, mouse and Drosophila melanogaster genomes,
though it supports other organisms too. RBPmap enables the users to select
motifs from a large database of experimentally defined motifs. In addition,
users can provide any motif of interest, given as either a consensus or a PSSM.
The algorithm for mapping the motifs is based on a Weighted-Rank approach, which
considers the clustering propensity of the binding sites and the overall
tendency of regulatory regions to be conserved. In addition, RBPmap incorporates
a position-specific background model, designed uniquely for different genomic
regions, such as splice sites, 5’ and 3’ UTRs, non-coding RNA
and intergenic regions. RBPmap was tested on high-throughput RNA-binding
experiments and was proved to be highly accurate.
Alternative splicing (AS) is a post-transcriptional process considered to be responsible for the huge diversity of proteins in higher eukaryotes. AS events are regulated by different splicing factors (SFs) that bind to sequence elements on the RNA. SFmap is a web server for predicting putative SF binding sites in genomic data (http://sfmap.technion.ac.il). SFmap implements the COS(WR) algorithm, which computes similarity scores for a given regulatory motif based on information derived from its sequence environment and its evolutionary conservation. Input for SFmap is a human genomic sequence or a list of sequences in FASTA format that can either be uploaded from a file or pasted into a window. SFmap searches within a given sequence for significant hits of binding motifs that are either stored in our database or defined by the user. SFmap results are provided both as a text file and as a graphical web interface.
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