ELMThe Eukaryote Linear Motif resource for Functional Sites in Proteins
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Functional site prediction

Protein sequence
Enter SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL identifier or accession number:
 

Or paste the sequence (Single letter code sequence only or FASTA format):
 
 

Context information
 

Species
    select from list:

    or type in manually:
 

Cell compartment (one or several):
 

Please be patient! The ELM server collects the SMART/Pfam information through the SMART public queue.


Release Notes

The current release of the ELM database (Dec 2007) contains 132 ELMs.

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o The ELM server

ELM is a resource for predicting functional sites in eukaryotic proteins. Putative functional sites are identified by patterns (regular expressions). To improve the predictive power, context-based rules and logical filters are applied to reduce the amount of false positives.
Known ELM instances and predictions in sequences similar to ELM instance sequences, where the motif is positionally conserved, are identified and displayed (see ELM instance mapper).

Users are encouraged to supply context information in order to obtain relevant predictions.

The current version of the ELM server provides basic functionality including filtering by taxonomy, cell compartment, globular domain clash (using the SMART/Pfam databases) and structure (BETA version).


o Disclaimer

Short patterns applied to proteins are usually not statistically significant: Therefore we can't provide E-values as with BLAST searches. This means that most matches shown are more likely to be false positives than true matches. We hope that ELM server results will prove useful as guides to experimentation but they should not be treated as factual findings.

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o Feedback

If you run into any bugs, please let us know: bugs@elm.eu.org.

Comments or suggestions: feedback@elm.eu.org
Last modified 12-MAY-2008 - webmaster