Table 4.

Tools for the prediction of secondary structure characteristics.

Name	Hosted by	URL	Features	Reference
psipred	University College London (UCL) Department of Computer Science	http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/psipred/	Uses PSI-BLAST to determine regions of homology which inform their predictions	Jones (33)
JPred	University of Dundee	http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/www-jpred	Takes into account solvent accessibility in its predictions; displays PDB matches if applicable	Cole et al. (66)
CFSSP (Chou and Fasman Secondary Structure Prediction) Server	BioGem.org	http://biogem.org/tool/chou-fasman/	Uses the Chou and Fasman algorithm to predict helices, sheets, turns, and coils	Chou and Fasman (67)