About InterProScan

What is InterProScan?

InterProScan is the software package that allows sequences (protein and nucleic) to be scanned against InterPro's signatures. Signatures are predictive models, provided by several different databases (referred to as member databases), that make up the InterPro consortium.

The software is available:

  • As a web-based tool for the analysis of single protein sequences
  • Programmatically via Web services that allow up to 25 sequences to be analysed per request (both SOAP and REST-based services are available)
  • As a downloadable package for local installation from the EBI's FTP server, for instructions see the detailed documentation pages.

InterProScan is run regularly against UniProtKB and the results are made available via the InterPro website.

More information

For more information, and for instructions on how to obtain, install and run InterProScan, please see the detailed documentation pages.

Publications

InterProScan: protein domains identifier
Quevillon E., Silventoinen V., Pillai S., Harte N., Mulder N., Apweiler R., Lopez R.
Nucleic Acids Research, 2005, Vol. 33, Issue suppl 2 (doi: 10.1093/nar/gki442)
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