cddApp: a Cytoscape app for accessing the NCBI conserved domain database

Bioinformatics. 2015 Jan 1;31(1):134-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu605. Epub 2014 Sep 10.

Abstract

Motivation: cddApp is a Cytoscape extension that supports the annotation of protein networks with information about domains and specific functional sites from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's conserved domain database (CDD). CDD information is loaded for nodes annotated with NCBI numbers or UniProt identifiers and (optionally) Protein Data Bank structures. cddApp integrates with the Cytoscape apps structureViz2 and enhancedGraphics. Together, these three apps provide powerful tools to annotate nodes with CDD domain and site information and visualize that information in both network and structural contexts.

Availability and implementation: cddApp is written in Java and freely available for download from the Cytoscape app store (http://apps.cytoscape.org). Documentation is provided at http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/cytoscape, and the source is publically available from GitHub http://github.com/RBVI/cddApp.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Bacillus
  • Bacterial Proteins / chemistry
  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism*
  • Computational Biology / instrumentation*
  • Conserved Sequence
  • Databases, Protein
  • Humans
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways*
  • Molecular Sequence Annotation / methods*
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Interaction Mapping
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins