※ Documentation:
Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Q: How to use CSS-Palm server?

A: Firstly, let's go to the prediction page at http://bioinformatics.lcd-ustc.org/css_palm/prediction.php. Then input FASTA-format protein primary sequence(s) into the Textbox. You can click the "Example (CENPE_HUMAN)" button for an example sequence. After that, choose which cut-off value you want and press the "Submit" button for the final prediction results.

And if you want to see the corresponding CSS scores to each Cysteine amino acid, please choose the cut-off value "0".

2. Q: Now I get all the prediction results that I need, but I can't automatically analyze them in my own program.

A: We have provided this functionality for users' convenience! After you get the prediction results, you may click the word here in the sentence "Download the TAB-deliminated data file from here", and get a TAB-deliminated result file which should satisfy the need of automatical processing.

3. Q: The number of scientific articles considering palmitoylation mechanisms is being increased rapidly. How can CSS_Palm webserver keep up to date?

A: We have compiled the data set of experimentally identified palmitoylation sites from the literature. Users who are interested may find it at here. And we also strongly welcome users to help us keep CSS_Palm up to date by reporting to us (Yu Xue or Fengfeng Zhou) the newly published articles which contain experimentally identified palmitoylation sites. We will rebuild our predictive model periodically.

4. Q: I have a few questions which are not listed above, how can I contact the authors of CSS-Palm?

A: You may contact the two corresponding authors: Ying Xu and Xuebiao Yao for details.


Supplementary materials:

1. CSS-Palm Supplementary text.

2. CSS-Palm Supplementary figures.


¡ù CITATION:
For publication of results, please cite the following article:

CSS-Palm: Palmitoylation Site Prediction with a Clustering and Scoring Strategy (CSS)
Fengfeng Zhou, Yu Xue, Xuebiao Yao and Ying Xu.
Bioinformatics, 22(7): 894-896, 2006.

Last update: Jan. 18, 2006
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