This program has been extensively used by our group in gene finding, protein sequence analysis and fold prediction. We have found a lot of new genes for several biological groups. It had been a very useful tool in our CASP4 prediction.
Redundancy is very common in sequence databases.
These redundant data often do not supply more information, but waste lot of time in database searching and sequence analysis. The use of the clustered database can save lot of CPU time. Gene hunting With the rapid growth of sequence data from different genome sequence projects, discovery of novel genes plays an important role in life science. My major interests of gene hunting is to find new members of known protein families from the vast genomic data. Starting with a list of known proteins or domains, we try find the proteins with very reomte homology, with novel domain combinations, with new functions, or from distinctively different species.