Mercator pipeline for automated sequence annotation |
Using the Mercator web application you can assign MapMan "Bins" to arbitrary DNA or protein input sequences. The output will be a text file mapping each input identifier to one or more Bins. This file can directly be used as a mapping file for the high-throughput data visualization and meta-analysis software MapMan.
The Mercator tool generates functional predictions by searching a variety of reference databases (currently 6 are available: 3 BLAST-based, 2 RPSBLAST based and InterProScan) and subsequently evaluating and compiling the search results for each input gene to propose a functional Bin based on the manually curated binning of the reference database entries.
All input data has to submitted in FASTA format.
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If you use the Mercator tool for your work, please cite:
Lohse M, Nagel A, Herter T, May P, Schroda M, Zrenner R, Tohge T, Fernie AR, Stitt M, Usadel B.
Plant Cell Environ. 2013 Nov 15. doi: 10.1111/pce.12231. [Epub ahead of print]