Print Email Facebook Twitter SPiCE: A web-based tool for sequence-based protein classification and exploration Title SPiCE: A web-based tool for sequence-based protein classification and exploration Author Van den Berg, B.A. Reinders, M.J. Roubos, J.A. De Ridder, D. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Intelligent Systems Date 2014-03-31 Abstract Background Amino acid sequences and features extracted from such sequences have been used to predict many protein properties, such as subcellular localization or solubility, using classifier algorithms. Although software tools are available for both feature extraction and classifier construction, their application is not straightforward, requiring users to install various packages and to convert data into different formats. This lack of easily accessible software hampers quick, explorative use of sequence-based classification techniques by biologists. Results We have developed the web-based software tool SPiCE for exploring sequence-based features of proteins in predefined classes. It offers data upload/download, sequence-based feature calculation, data visualization and protein classifier construction and testing in a single integrated, interactive environment. To illustrate its use, two example datasets are included showing the identification of differences in amino acid composition between proteins yielding low and high production levels in fungi and low and high expression levels in yeast, respectively. Conclusions SPiCE is an easy-to-use online tool for extracting and exploring sequence-based features of sets of proteins, allowing non-experts to apply advanced classification techniques. The tool is available at http://helix.ewi.tudelft.nl/spice. Subject sequence-baseddata visualization and explorationprotein feature extractionprotein classificationOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ea7e9c1b-abfa-4575-901a-6b5a83a49b44 DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-93 Publisher BioMed Central ISSN 1471-2105 Source http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/93 Source BMC Bioinformatics, 15, 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 The Author(s)This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Files PDF vandenBerg_2014.pdf 2.45 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ea7e9c1b-abfa-4575-901a-6b5a83a49b44/datastream/OBJ/view