Gracy Jérôme, Chiche Laurent
Centre de Biochimie Structurale, UMR5048 and UMR554 CNRS-INSERM-Université Montpellier I, Faculté de Pharmacie, 15 avenue Charles Flahault, BP 14491, 34093 Montpellier-Cedex 5, France.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W65-71. doi: 10.1093/nar/gki455.
PAT, for Protein Analysis Toolkit, is an integrated biocomputing server. The main goal of its design was to facilitate the combination of different processing tools for complex protein analyses and to simplify the automation of repetitive tasks. The PAT server provides a standardized web interface to a wide range of protein analysis tools. It is designed as a streamlined analysis environment that implements many features which strongly simplify studies dealing with protein sequences and structures and improve productivity. PAT is able to read and write data in many bioinformatics formats and to create any desired pipeline by seamlessly sending the output of a tool to the input of another tool. PAT can retrieve protein entries from identifier-based queries by using pre-computed database indexes. Users can easily formulate complex queries combining different analysis tools with few mouse clicks, or via a dedicated macro language, and a web session manager provides direct access to any temporary file generated during the user session. PAT is freely accessible on the Internet at http://pat.cbs.cnrs.fr.
PAT即蛋白质分析工具包，是一个集成的生物计算服务器。其设计的主要目标是便于组合不同的处理工具进行复杂的蛋白质分析，并简化重复性任务的自动化。PAT服务器为广泛的蛋白质分析工具提供标准化的网络界面。它被设计成一个精简的分析环境，实现了许多功能，极大地简化了处理蛋白质序列和结构的研究并提高了生产力。PAT能够读取和写入多种生物信息学格式的数据，并通过将一个工具的输出无缝发送到另一个工具的输入来创建任何所需的管道。PAT可以使用预先计算的数据库索引从基于标识符的查询中检索蛋白质条目。用户只需点击几下鼠标，或通过专用的宏语言，就能轻松地组合不同分析工具来制定复杂的查询，并且网络会话管理器可直接访问用户会话期间生成的任何临时文件。可通过http://pat.cbs.cnrs.fr在互联网上免费访问PAT。
