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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 18.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Dev Res. 2011 Feb;72(1):4–16. doi: 10.1002/ddr.20397

Table 4.

Useful structural comparison and structure-based function assignment methods.

Method Program/Server URL/Webserver
Fold similarity Annolite http://salilab.org/DBAli/?page=tools&action=f_annolitechain
CATHEDRAL http://www.cathdb.info/cgi-bin/CathedralServer.pl
CE http://cl.sdsc.edu/
DALI/DaliLite http://ekhidna.biocenter.helsinki.fi/dali_server/start
FATCAT http://fatcat.burnham.org/
GRATH http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cath/Grath.pl
MATRAS http://biunit.aist-nara.ac.jp/matras/
MAMMOTH http://ub.cbm.uam.es/mammoth/
SCALI http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/bystrc/SCALI/
SSAP http://www.cathdb.info/cgi-bin/cath/SsapServer.pl
SSM http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd-srv/ssm/ssmstart.html
STRUCTAL http://molmovdb.mbb.yale.edu/align/
TOPS+ http://balabio.dcs.gla.ac.uk/mallika/WebTOPS/
VAST http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/VAST/vastsearch.html

Active sites LigBase http://modbase.compbio.ucsf.edu/ligbase/
MarkUs http://luna.bioc.columbia.edu/honiglab/mark-us/cgi-bin/submit.pl
MOTIF Search http://motif.genome.jp/
PatchFinder http://patchfinder.tau.ac.il/
PDBSiteScan http://wwwmgs.bionet.nsc.ru/mgs/gnw/pdbsitescan/
PINTS http://www.russell.embl.de/pints/
PROCAT http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/PROCAT/getPDBFILE.html
Query3D http://pdbfun.uniroma2.it/
RIGOR/SPASM http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/spasm.html
SARIG http://bioinfo2.weizmann.ac.il/~pietro/SARIG/V3/index.html
SuMo http://sumo-pbil.ibcp.fr/cgi-bin/sumo-welcome
THEMATICS http://pfweb.chem.neu.edu/thematics/submit.html

Pockets/clefts CASTp http://sts.bioengr.uic.edu/castp/index.php
CAVER http://loschmidt.chemi.muni.cz/caver/
ef-Site http://ef-site.hgc.jp/eF-site/index.jsp
FEATURE http://feature.stanford.edu/webfeature/
FINSITE http://cssb.biology.gatech.edu/skolnick/files/FINDSITE/index.html
LIGSITEcsc http://projects.biotec.tu-dresden.de/pocket/
PocketPicker http://gecco.org.chemie.uni-frankfurt.de/pocketpicker/index.html
SURF’sUP! http://asia.genesilico.pl/surfs_up/
SURFNET http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~roman/surfnet/surfnet.html

Protein-protein Interaction BIND http://bond.unleashedinformatics.com/
DIP http://dip.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/dip/Main.cgi
HAPPI http://discern.uits.iu.edu:8340/HAPPI/index.html
IntAct http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact/main.xhtml
MINT http://mint.bio.uniroma2.it/mint/Welcome.do
MIPS http://mips.helmholtz-muenchen.de/proj/ppi/
PIPs http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/www-pips/
PPISearch http://gemdock.life.nctu.edu.tw/ppisearch/index.php
PRISM http://prism.ccbb.ku.edu.tr/prism/
ProMate http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/promate/promate.html
STRING http://string-db.org/

MetaServers Gene3D http://gene3d.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/Gene3D/
JAFA http://jafa.burnham.org
Interpro/InterproScan http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/InterProScan/
ProFunc http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/ProFunc/
ProKnow http://proknow.mbi.ucla.edu/
ProtFun http://www.protfun.com/
PSiFR http://psifr.cssb.biology.gatech.edu/
SiteEngine http://bioinfo3d.cs.tau.ac.il/SiteEngine/