POSSUM

POSSUM ( Position-Specific Scoring matrix-based feature generator for machine learning) is a software toolkit that provides a web server to generate 21 types of position-specific scoring matrix-based feature descriptors, offering a valuable resource for bioinformaticians and computational biologists.

Topic

Nucleic acid sites, features and motifs;Nucleic acids;Protein sites, features and motifs

Detail

  • Operation: Protein feature detection

  • Software interface: Web user interface

  • Language: Python, Perl

  • License: -

  • Cost: Free for academic/scientific use.

  • Version name: 1.0

  • Credit: -

  • Input: FASTA

  • Output: CSV

  • Contact: trevor.lithgow@monash.edu;jiangning.song@monash.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: -

Publications

  • POSSUM: a bioinformatics toolkit for generating numerical sequence feature descriptors based on PSSM profiles.
  • Wang J, et al. POSSUM: a bioinformatics toolkit for generating numerical sequence feature descriptors based on PSSM profiles. POSSUM: a bioinformatics toolkit for generating numerical sequence feature descriptors based on PSSM profiles. 2017; 33:2756-2758. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx302
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx302
  • PMID: 28903538
  • PMC: -

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