About
Macromolecular System Finder (MacSyFinder) provides a flexible framework to model the properties of molecular systems (cellular machinery or pathway) including their components, evolutionary associations with other systems and genetic architecture. Modelled features also include functional analogs, and the multiple uses of a same component by different systems. Models are used to search for molecular systems in complete genomes or in unstructured data like metagenomes. The components of the systems are searched by sequence similarity using Hidden Markov model (HMM) protein profiles. The assignment of hits to a given system is decided based on compliance with the content and organization of the system model. A graphical interface, MacSyView, facilitates the analysis of the results by showing overviews of component content and genomic context.
Authors: MacSyFinder was developped by Sophie Abby and Eduardo Rocha in GEM and Bertrand Néron and Hervé Menager in CIB.
Documentation: http://macsyfinder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Availability: https://github.com/gem-pasteur/macsyfinder and https://github.com/gem-pasteur/macsyview.