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. 2016 Mar 16;11(3):e0151323. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151323

Table 3. Tools used in the study.

Sl.No Tool Purpose URL
I. Transcriptome assembly
1 Newbler De novo assembly -
II. Annotation tool
1 NCBI BLAST Preliminary annotation of transcripts www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
III. Gene prediction
1 FGENESH Prediction of open reading frame http://www.softberry.com/berry.phtml?topic=fgenesh&group=programs&subgroup=gfind
2 AUGUSTUS Prediction of open reading frame http://bioinf.uni-greifswald.de/augustus/submission.php
IV. Sequence analysis
1 CDD Identification of conserved domain http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi
2 Pfam Protein family classification http://pfam.xfam.org/search
V. Fold analysis
1 PSIPRED Fold recognition http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/psipred/
2 PHYRE2 Fold recognition http://www.sbg.bio.ic.ac.uk/phyre2/
3 GenTHREADER Fold recognition http://bioinf.cs.ucl.ac.uk/psipred/
VI. Gene Ontology
1 Gene Ontology Annotation http://geneontology.org/
VII. Phylogenetic analysis
1 MEGA5 http://www.megasoftware.net/
VIII. Protein-protein interaction
1 STRING To find out interacting partners http://string-db.org/
IX. Expression analysis
1 qRT-PCR To analyze the functional significance -