Enter a FASTA sequence  
Paste an example
(Minimum sequence length required: 160 bases )




Size limit: 5MB. For longer sequences kindly use the standalone version.





    


    



To generate AlphaFold2 PDB structure file for your amino acids sequence, please Click Here
Once generated, the PDB structure file can be uploaded above alongwith query DNA sequence to run PTFSpot



About PTFSpot:

Unlike animals, variability in transcription factors (TF) and their binding regions (TFBR) across the plants species is a major problem which most of the existing TFBR finding software fail to tackle, rendering them hardly of any use. This limitation has resulted into underdevelopment of plant regulatory research and rampant use of Arabidopsis like model species, generating misleading results. Here we report a revolutionary transformers based deep-learning approach, PTFSpot, which learns from TF structures and their binding regions co-variability to bring a universal TF-DNA interaction model to detect TFBR with complete freedom from TF and species specific models’ limitations. During a series of extensive benchmarking studies over multiple experimentally validated data, it not only outperformed the existing software by >30% lead, but also delivered consistently >90% accuracy even for those species and TF families which were never encountered during model building process. PTFSpot makes it possible now to accurately annotate TFBRs across any plant genome even in the total lack of any TF information, completely free from the bottlenecks of species and TF specific models. PTFSpot is freely available as stand-alone source codes at https://scbb.ihbt.res.in/PTFSpot/index.php.




Citations:


PTFSpot: deep co-learning on transcription factors and their binding regions attains impeccable universality in plants
Sagar Gupta, Veerbhan Kesarwani, Umesh Bhati, Jyoti, Ravi Shankar*; Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024  Read research article here 

Related Publications:


PTF-Vac: Ab-initio discovery of plant transcription factors binding sites using explainable and generative deep co-learning encoders-decoders
Sagar Gupta, Jyoti, Umesh Bhati, Veerbhan Kesarwani, Akanksha Sharma, Ravi Shankar*; bioRxiv, 2024  Read research article here 

Comprehensive analysis of computational approaches in plant transcription factors binding regions discovery
Jyoti, Ritu, Sagar Gupta, Ravi Shankar*; Heliyon, 2024  Read research article here