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Function

Reports transmembrane helices

Description

Prediction of transmembrane helices in proteins.

Usage

Here is a sample session with etmhmm 


% etmhmm 
Reports transmembrane helices
Input (aligned) protein sequence set: 5h2a_crigr.fsa
Output file [5h2a_crigr.etmhmm]:

Go to the input files for this example
Go to the output files for this example

Command line arguments 

Reports transmembrane helices
Version: EMBOSS:6.4.0.0

   Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers:
  [-sequence]          seqset     (Aligned) protein sequence set filename and
                                  optional format, or reference (input USA)
  [-outfile]           outfile    [*.etmhmm] Output file name

   Additional (Optional) qualifiers: (none)
   Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers:
   -html               boolean    [N] Produce html output
   -short              boolean    [N] Produce short output
   -plot               boolean    [N] Produce graphical output
   -one                boolean    [N] Use version 1 model file

   Associated qualifiers:

   "-sequence" associated qualifiers
   -sbegin1            integer    Start of each sequence to be used
   -send1              integer    End of each sequence to be used
   -sreverse1          boolean    Reverse (if DNA)
   -sask1              boolean    Ask for begin/end/reverse
   -snucleotide1       boolean    Sequence is nucleotide
   -sprotein1          boolean    Sequence is protein
   -slower1            boolean    Make lower case
   -supper1            boolean    Make upper case
   -sformat1           string     Input sequence format
   -sdbname1           string     Database name
   -sid1               string     Entryname
   -ufo1               string     UFO features
   -fformat1           string     Features format
   -fopenfile1         string     Features file name

   "-outfile" associated qualifiers
   -odirectory2        string     Output directory

   General qualifiers:
   -auto               boolean    Turn off prompts
   -stdout             boolean    Write first file to standard output
   -filter             boolean    Read first file from standard input, write
                                  first file to standard output
   -options            boolean    Prompt for standard and additional values
   -debug              boolean    Write debug output to program.dbg
   -verbose            boolean    Report some/full command line options
   -help               boolean    Report command line options and exit. More
                                  information on associated and general
                                  qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose
   -warning            boolean    Report warnings
   -error              boolean    Report errors
   -fatal              boolean    Report fatal errors
   -die                boolean    Report dying program messages
   -version            boolean    Report version number and exit

Qualifier Type Description Allowed values Default
Standard (Mandatory) qualifiers
[-sequence]
(Parameter 1)		 seqset (Aligned) protein sequence set filename and optional format, or reference (input USA) Readable set of sequences Required
[-outfile]
(Parameter 2)		 outfile Output file name Output file <*>.etmhmm
Additional (Optional) qualifiers
(none)
Advanced (Unprompted) qualifiers
-html boolean Produce html output Boolean value Yes/No No
-short boolean Produce short output Boolean value Yes/No No
-plot boolean Produce graphical output Boolean value Yes/No No
-one boolean Use version 1 model file Boolean value Yes/No No
Associated qualifiers
"-sequence" associated seqset qualifiers
-sbegin1
-sbegin_sequence		 integer Start of each sequence to be used Any integer value 0
-send1
-send_sequence		 integer End of each sequence to be used Any integer value 0
-sreverse1
-sreverse_sequence		 boolean Reverse (if DNA) Boolean value Yes/No N
-sask1
-sask_sequence		 boolean Ask for begin/end/reverse Boolean value Yes/No N
-snucleotide1
-snucleotide_sequence		 boolean Sequence is nucleotide Boolean value Yes/No N
-sprotein1
-sprotein_sequence		 boolean Sequence is protein Boolean value Yes/No N
-slower1
-slower_sequence		 boolean Make lower case Boolean value Yes/No N
-supper1
-supper_sequence		 boolean Make upper case Boolean value Yes/No N
-sformat1
-sformat_sequence		 string Input sequence format Any string  
-sdbname1
-sdbname_sequence		 string Database name Any string  
-sid1
-sid_sequence		 string Entryname Any string  
-ufo1
-ufo_sequence		 string UFO features Any string  
-fformat1
-fformat_sequence		 string Features format Any string  
-fopenfile1
-fopenfile_sequence		 string Features file name Any string  
"-outfile" associated outfile qualifiers
-odirectory2
-odirectory_outfile		 string Output directory Any string  
General qualifiers
-auto boolean Turn off prompts Boolean value Yes/No N
-stdout boolean Write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-filter boolean Read first file from standard input, write first file to standard output Boolean value Yes/No N
-options boolean Prompt for standard and additional values Boolean value Yes/No N
-debug boolean Write debug output to program.dbg Boolean value Yes/No N
-verbose boolean Report some/full command line options Boolean value Yes/No Y
-help boolean Report command line options and exit. More information on associated and general qualifiers can be found with -help -verbose Boolean value Yes/No N
-warning boolean Report warnings Boolean value Yes/No Y
-error boolean Report errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-fatal boolean Report fatal errors Boolean value Yes/No Y
-die boolean Report dying program messages Boolean value Yes/No Y
-version boolean Report version number and exit Boolean value Yes/No N

Input file format

etmhmm reads any normal sequence USAs.

Input files for usage example

File: 5h2a_crigr.fsa

>5H2A_CRIGR you can have comments after the ID
MEILCEDNTSLSSIPNSLMQVDGDSGLYRNDFNSRDANSSDASNWTIDGENRTNLSFEGYLPPTCLSILHL
QEKNWSALLTAVVIILTIAGNILVIMAVSLEKKLQNATNYFLMSLAIADMLLGFLVMPVSMLTILYGYRWP
LPSKLCAVWIYLDVLFSTASIMHLCAISLDRYVAIQNPIHHSRFNSRTKAFLKIIAVWTISVGVSMPIPVF
GLQDDSKVFKQGSCLLADDNFVLIGSFVAFFIPLTIMVITYFLTIKSLQKEATLCVSDLSTRAKLASFSFL
PQSSLSSEKLFQRSIHREPGSYTGRRTMQSISNEQKACKVLGIVFFLFVVMWCPFFITNIMAVICKESCNE
HVIGALLNVFVWIGYLSSAVNPLVYTLFNKTYRSAFSRYIQCQYKENRKPLQLILVNTIPALAYKSSQLQA
GQNKDSKEDAEPTDNDCSMVTLGKQQSEETCTDNINTVNEKVSCV

Output file format

Output files for usage example

File: 5h2a_crigr.etmhmm

# 5H2A_CRIGR Length: 471
# 5H2A_CRIGR Number of predicted TMHs:  7
# 5H2A_CRIGR Exp number of AAs in TMHs: 159.47336
# 5H2A_CRIGR Exp number, first 60 AAs:  0.01677
# 5H2A_CRIGR Total prob of N-in:        0.00629
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	outside	     1    76
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	    77    99
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	inside	   100   111
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	   112   134
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	outside	   135   148
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	   149   171
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	inside	   172   191
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	   192   214
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	outside	   215   233
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	   234   256
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	inside	   257   324
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	   325   347
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	outside	   348   356
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	TMhelix	   357   379
5H2A_CRIGR	TMHMM2.0	inside	   380   471

Data files

None.

Notes

None.

References

  1. Anders Krogh and Bjorn Larsson, Gunnar von Heijne, and Erik L.L. Sonnhammer: Predicting Transmembrane Protein Topology with a Hidden Markov Model: Application to Complete Genomes. J. Mol. Biol. 305:567-580, 2001.
  2. Erik L.L. Sonnhammer, Gunnar von Heijne, and Anders Krogh: A hidden Markov model for predicting transmembrane helices in protein sequences. In J. Glasgow et al., eds.: Proc. Sixth Int. Conf. on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, pages 175-182. AAAI Press, 1998.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

See also

Program name Description
echlorop Reports presence of chloroplast transit peptides
elipop Prediction of lipoproteins
esignalp Reports protein signal cleavage sites
sigcleave Reports on signal cleavage sites in a protein sequence
siggenlig Generates ligand-binding signatures from a CON file
sigscan Generates hits (DHF file) from a signature search
tmap Predict and plot transmembrane segments in protein sequences
topo Draws an image of a transmembrane protein

Author(s)

This program is an EMBOSS wrapper for a program written by the CBS group http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/index.shtml

The original CBS group application must be licensed and installed to use this wrapper.

Please report all bugs to the EMBOSS bug team (emboss-bug © emboss.open-bio.org) not to the original author.

History

Target users

This program is intended to be used by everyone and everything, from naive users to embedded scripts.

Comments

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