ESPript  3.0


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What is ESPript?
  • ESPript, 'Easy Sequencing in PostScript', is a program which renders sequence similarities and secondary structure information from aligned sequences for analysis and publication purpose.


ESPript figure
Excerpt from a generated ESPript figure (full size in PDF)


  • Key features:

    • ESPript is a utility, whose output is a PostScript / PDF / PNG or TIFF file of aligned sequences with graphical enhancements.
    • Its main input is a file of pre-aligned sequences in Clustal, FASTA, MultAlin, NPS@ or ProDom format.
    • The program calculates a similarity score for each residue of the aligned sequences.
    • Optional files allow further rendering.

  • A typical ESPript figure shows:

    • aligned sequences,
    • similarities,
    • consensus,
    • accessibility,
    • hydropathy,
    • secondary structures elements,
    • intermolecular contacts,
    • user-supplied markers.

  • Biotool Web servers interfaced with ESPript:

    • ENDscript:
    • ENDscript is a friendly Web server, which extracts and renders a comprehensive analysis of primary to quaternary protein structure information in an automated way. Several ENDscript representations are produced with ESPript.

    • T-Coffee:
    • T-Coffee is a collection of tools for computing, evaluating and manipulating multiple alignments of DNA, RNA, protein sequences and structures.

    • NPS@:
    • NPS@ is an interactive Web server dedicated to protein sequence analysis. NPS@ can carry out multiple sequence alignments with ClustalW or MultAlin and resulting outputs can be rendered with ESPript.

    • MultAlin:
    • MultAlin is a multiple sequence alignment program with hierarchical clustering. Resulting alignments can be rendered with ESPript.



Google Scholar citations: ESPript 1 / ESPript 2 / ESPript 3


Terms of use
  • ESPript 3.x is developed and maintained by Patrice GOUET and Xavier ROBERT in the "Retroviruses and Structural Biochemistry" research team of the "Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry" laboratory (UMR5086 CNRS / Lyon University). ESPript 3.x is a major upgrade of ESPript 2.x, which was created by Patrice GOUET and Emmanuel COURCELLE.
  • ESPript is provided as a service to the scientific community and can be used free of charge for research and educational purposes without restriction.
  • When publishing data resulting from usage of ESPript, please use the following citation:
    • Robert, X. and Gouet, P. (2014) "Deciphering key features in protein structures with the new ENDscript server". Nucl. Acids Res. 42(W1), W320-W324 - doi: 10.1093/nar/gku316 (freely accessible online).
  • Send your messages to espript@ibcp.fr, if you have questions, suggestions or if you want to be informed about program releases.
  • Authors make no warranties regarding the correctness of the data. Their responsibility is limited to applying best efforts in providing the most reliable and accurate webservice. Authors have no responsibility for the use of results, data or information obtained through this server. This webservice is hosted on CNRS network and governed by French law. By visiting this site or using all or part of the site's features, users formally accept the application of French law. This website does not use cookies and uses encrypted HTTP. The client computer IP address as well as connection date and time are processed for usage statistics purpose. No other data are collected and no data are transmitted to third-party partners or sites.


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