Recent enhancements to the Blocks Database servers

Recent enhancements to the Blocks Database servers

The Blocks Database contains multiple alignments of conserved regions in protein families which can be searched by e-mail ([email protected]) and World Wide Web (http://blocks.fhcrc.org/ ) servers to classify protein and nucleotide sequences. Recent enhancements to the servers include: (i) improved calculation of position-specific scoring matrices from blocks; (ii) availability of the Pri...

New features of the Blocks Database servers

Blocks are ungapped multiple sequence alignments representing conserved protein regions, and the Blocks Database consists of blocks from documented protein families. World Wide Web (http://www. blocks.fhcrc.org) and Email ([email protected]) servers provide tools for homology searching and for analyzing protein family relationships. New enhancements include a multiple alignment processor ...

Increased coverage of protein families with the Blocks Database servers

The Blocks Database WWW (http://blocks.fhcrc.org ) and Email ([email protected] ) servers provide tools to search DNA and protein queries against the Blocks+ Database of multiple alignments, which represent conserved protein regions. Blocks+ nearly doubles the number of protein families included in the database by adding families from the Pfam-A, ProDom and Domo databases to those from PR...

Recent Enhancements To Pvm

This paper presents new features of PVM, a popular standard for writing parallel programs which execute over networks of heterogeneous machines. Although PVM has become an important infrastructure for parallel programmers, we continue to develop the system based both on user feedback and our own research interests. In this paper we present new communications routines and brieey characterize the...

Recent Enhancements to the MULTIFAN-CL Software