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. 2012 Jul 6;13(6):711–727. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbs033

Table 3:

List of commonly used available resources for functional analysis (other than homology-, motif- and context-based) that can be performed on metagenomic data sets

Type of prediction Resource name URL
Carbohydrate-active enzymes CAZy http://www.cazy.org/
Glycosyl hydrolases GAS http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/∼ffzhou/GASdb/
Protein localization PSORT http://psort.hgc.jp/
Cell-PLoc http://www.csbio.sjtu.edu.cn/bioinf/Cell-PLoc/
CELLO http://cello.life.nctu.edu.tw/
PA-SUB http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/∼bioinfo/PA/Sub/index.html
Membrane proteins DAS http://www.sbc.su.se/∼miklos/DAS/
HMMTOP http://www.enzim.hu/hmmtop/html/submit.html
HMM-TM http://bioinformatics.biol.uoa.gr/HMM-TM/index.jsp
TMB-Comp http://bmbpcu36.leeds.ac.uk/∼andy/betaBarrel/TMB_Hunt_2/TMB_Comp.cgi
Lipoproteins DOLOP http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/genomes/dolop/dolop.htm
LIPO http://services.cbu.uib.no/tools/lipo
SignalP http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/
LipoP http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/LipoP/
PRED-LIPO http://bioinformatics.biol.uoa.gr/PRED-LIPO/input.jsp
Secretory proteins (signal peptide Type I) Tatfind http://signalfind.org/tatfind.html
TatP http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TatP/
SignalP http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/
PrediSi http://www.predisi.de/index.html
Adhesins SPAAN Sachdeva et al. 2004 [75]
Transporters TansportTP http://bioinfo3.noble.org/transporter/
TransAAP http://www.membranetransport.org/transaap/TransAAP_login.html
TCDB http://www.tcdb.org/
Insertion sequences ISsaga http://issaga.biotoul.fr/ISsaga/issaga_index.php
CRISPRs PILER http://www.drive5.com/pilercr/
CRISPRfinder http://crispr.u-psud.fr/Server/
Repeats Tandem Repeats Finder http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html
EMBOSS http://emboss.sourceforge.net/
Virulence factors VFDB http://www.mgc.ac.cn/VFs/
MvirDB http://predictioncenter.llnl.gov/