Table 3

Useful websites for phosphoproteomics

Name

Comments

URL

Reference

Phosphorylation-site databases

Phosphosite

Searchable by protein name to look for known phosphorylation sites

http://www.phosphosite.org webcite

[41]

Swiss-Prot

Protein annotations include sites of phosphorylation and other post-translational modifications

http://us.expasy.org/sprot webcite

[43]

Phospho.ELM

Searchable by protein name, kinase substrates, or SH2-binding sites

http://phospho.elm.eu.org webcite

[44]

Phosphorylation-site prediction

Scansite

Scans for kinase motifs derived from peptide library phosphorylation data

http://scansite.mit.edu webcite

[59]

NetPhosK

Produces neural network predictions of specific kinase phosphorylation sites

http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetPhosK webcite

[60]

ProSite

Scans for kinase consensus motifs derived from the literature. A limited number of kinase motifs are included

http://us.expasy.org/prosite webcite

[61]

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