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Information

Unique identifier	OMICS_24601
Name	SCANPS
Interface	Web user interface
Restrictions to use	None
Input data	A protein sequence.
Input format	FASTA
Output data	Tables of hits for each iteration, together with associated pairwise alignments and multiple alignments for all of the hits in a given iteration.
Computer skills	Basic
Stability	Stable
Maintained	No

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Publication for SCANPS

SCANPS: a web server for iterative protein sequence database searching by dynamic programing, with display in a hierarchical SCOP browser.

2008 Nucleic Acids Res

PMCID: 2447745

PMID: 18503088

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn320

SCANPS in publication

Web Services at the European Bioinformatics Institute

PMCID: 1933145

PMID: 17576686

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm291

[…] is a biological sequence sequence comparison tool that implements the true smith and waterman algorithm (). it allows a rigorous search in a reasonable computational time. scanps (scan protein sequence, http://www.ebi.ac.uk/scanps/) is another program for comparing a protein sequence to a database of protein sequences. it also implements the full smith–waterman style […]

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SCANPS institution(s)

College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK; EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; Departments of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK; The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, The Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK; Biomatters Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand

SCANPS funding source(s)

Supported by the Royal Society, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the Scottish Funding Council (Scottish Bioinformatics Research Network grant).

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