List of protein tandem repeat annotation software

Computational methods use different properties of protein sequences and structures to find, characterize and annotate protein tandem repeats.

Sequence-based annotation methods

Name Last update Usage Result types Description Open source? Repeat type specific Reference
ard2 2013 web annotated sequence Neural network no alpha-solenoid [1]
DECIPHER 2021 downloadable Detection of tandem and/or interspersed repeats by orthology (DetectRepeats function in R package) yes no [2]
TRUST 2004 downloadable / web unit position, multiple sequence alignment Ab-initio determination of internal repeats in proteins. Exploits transitivity of alignments ? no [3]
T-REKS 2009 downloadable / web repeat unit Clustering of lengths between identical short strings by using a K-means algorithm yes no [4]
HHRepID 2008 downloadable / web Identification of repeats in protein sequences via HMM-HMM comparison to exploit evolutionary information in the form of multiple sequence alignments of homologs no [5]
RADAR 2018 downloadable / web unit position, multiple sequence alignment RADAR identifies short composition biased and gapped approximate repeats, as well as complex repeat architectures involving many different types of repeats in a query sequence yes no [6][7]
XSTREAM 2007 web unit position, different periods, multiple sequence alignment data-mining tool designed to efficiently identify Tandem Repeat (TR) patterns in biological sequence data. The program uses a seed-extension strategy coupled with several post-processing algorithms to analyze FASTA-formatted protein or nucleotide sequences no no [8]
TRED 2007 downloadable definition for tandem repeats over the edit distance and an efficient, deterministic algorithm for finding these repeats no no
TRAL 2015 downloadable Detects tandem repeats with both de novo software and sequence profile HMMs; statistical significance analysis of putative tandem repeats, and filtering of redundant predictions yes [9]
DOTTER 1995 downloadable Graphical dotplot program for detailed comparison of two sequences [10]
0J.PY [11]
PTRStalker 2012 downloadable unit position, multiple sequence alignment Ab-initio detection of fuzzy tandem repeats in protein amino acid sequences. no [12]
TRDistiller 2015 Rapid sorting of tandem repeat (TR)- and no-TR-containing sequences [13]
REPRO 2000 web Repeats detection based on a variation of the Smith-Waterman local alignment strategy followed by a graph-based iterative clustering procedure no no [14]
REP 2000 web no yes

Structure-based annotation methods

Name Last update Usage Result types Description Open source? Repeat type specific Reference
TAPO 2016 web unit position Uses periodicities of atomic coordinates and other types of structural representation, including strings generated by conformational alphabets, residue contact maps, and arrangements of vectors of secondary structure elements no no [15]
SYMD 2014 galaxy repeat geometry Detects internally symmetric protein structures through an “alignment scan” procedure in which a protein structure is aligned to itself after circularly permuting the second copy by all possible number of residues no no [16]
RAPHAEL 2012 web repeat probability Reduce to three dimensional structure to a wave function. It then determines periodicity information. no no [17]
CE-SYMM 2021
ProSTRIP 2010
DAVROS 2004
RQA 2009
OPAAS 2006
Gplus 2009
REUPRED 2016
ConSole 2015
RepeatsDB-Lite 2017
PRIGSA 2014
Swelfe 2008
Frustratometer 2021

References

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