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- Research in membrane proteins is an intensively active area in which
- new programs should be of considerable interest to workers in the
- field. With regard to this, Gunnar von Heijne and I have developed a new
- release of our application now called TopPred II. This freeware
- program can be used for predicting transmembrane segments in integral
- membrane proteins and their possible topology. TopPred II has been
- designed for Macintosh computers, using THINK Pascal 4.0. It can be
- freely obtained from the EMBL server.
-
- The essential differences with respect to older versions are:
-
- o It requires a 6.0.2 system or beyond.
-
- o It is a completely stand-alone application, so all the default
- parameters and scales are built in modifiable resources.
-
- o Decimal numbers can ONLY be introduced with colons ('.'). The use of
- commas (',') will lead to bizarre results
-
- o There are more extensive evaluations of data overflow.
-
- o It respects, as far as I can, the standard Apple file- and window-
- handling procedures.
-
- o In addition to GES, GvH1, KD and OMH scales, a new one, PA, has been
- introduced permitting a different kind of prediction of transmembrane
- domains. This new method is very close to the von Heijne's trapezoid
- one.
-
- o The algorithm has been modified to slightly reduce the time of
- calculation. However, increasing the number of "putative"
- transmembrane domains, the time taken to calculate will rise
- exponentially.
-
- o Input sequence files are limited to 2000 amino acids, and with no
- more than 30 transmembrane segments.
-
- o Sequences can be handled one by one or in groups of up to 20. For
- this purpose, TopPred II can build a file of sequence paths.
-
- o In dialogs asking for parameters, only relevant ones can be
- modified.
-
- o The hydrophobicity profile, transmembrane segments and topology
- predictions can be requested independently.
-
- o The topologies are also shown graphically as a simple diagram, which
- is easier to understand
-
- o The graphic topologies are ranked according to their degree of bias
- in the distribution of positively charged residues. The first one to be
- displayed should be taken as the best.
-
- o All the displayed results (texts as well as graphics) can be printed
- out and saved in files that can be imported by other programs.
-
- Enclosed are three example files which show different sequence formats
- allowed by TopPred II. No file-of-sequences is provided since this
- kind of file is absolutely dependent on the folder that contains the
- sequences.
-
- It is well recommended to read the CABIOS article (and the papers
- cited therein) which is also part of the enclosed documentation.
-
- Please, let me know all the suggestions, bugs or problems you find in
- TopPred II. Any encouraging message is also welcome.
-
-
-
- Manuel G. Claros
-
- Ecole Normale Superieure
- Laboratoire de Genetique Moleculaire
- 46 rue d'Ulm
- 75230 Paris cedex 05
- France
-
- claros@biologie.ens.fr
-