The PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench: 20 years on.
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SUBMITTER: Buchan DWA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6602445 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
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The PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench: 20 years on.
Buchan Daniel W A DWA Jones David T DT
Nucleic acids research 20190701 W1
The PSIPRED Workbench is a web server offering a range of predictive methods to the bioscience community for 20 years. Here, we present the work we have completed to update the PSIPRED Protein Analysis Workbench and make it ready for the next 20 years. The main focus of our recent website upgrade work has been the acceleration of analyses in the face of increasing protein sequence database size. We additionally discuss any new software, the new hardware infrastructure, our webservices and web si ...[more]
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