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VOLPES: an interactive web-based tool for visualizing and comparing physicochemical properties of biological sequences.

Lukas Bartonek | Bojan Zagrovic
Nucleic acids research | 2019

The structure, dynamics and, ultimately, biological function of proteins and nucleic acids are determined by the physicochemical properties of their primary sequences. Such properties are frequently captured via one-dimensional profile plots depicting a given physicochemical variable as a function of sequence position. Hydrophobicity, charge or structural disorder in proteins or nucleobase-density in nucleic acids are routinely visualized in this manner to analyze sequences at a glance. Such visualizations, however, are typically created case-by-case in a purely static manner, employ fixed visualization parameters only and do not enable a quantitative comparison between different sequences. Here, we present VOLPES (volpes.univie.ac.at), a user-friendly web server and the corresponding JavaScript library that enable a fully interactive, multifunctional visualization, analysis and comparison of the physicochemical properties of protein and nucleic-acid sequences, allowing unprecedented insight into biological sequence data and creating a starting point for further in-depth exploration.

Pubmed ID: 31114895

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Associated grants

  • Agency: European Research Council, International
    Id: 279408
  • Agency: Austrian Science Fund FWF, Austria
    Id: P 30680

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