Name: ESPript
Author: The ESPript authors & CNRS

October 25, 2025: We are pleased to announce the release of our new web server: NESPript
It has been designed for the representation of multiple alignments of nucleic acid sequences, including the visualization of their secondary structures.

Citing ESPript

Any published work that makes use of ESPript should cite at least one of the following references:

Robert, X., Guillon, C. and Gouet, P. (2025) FoldScript: a web server for the efficient analysis of AI-generated 3D protein models. Nucleic Acids Res. 53(W1), W277-W282.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf326 (freely accessible online).
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).
Gouet, P., Robert, X. and Courcelle, E. (2003) "ESPript/ENDscript: extracting and rendering sequence and 3D information from atomic structures of proteins". Nucl. Acids Res. 31(13), 3320-3323.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkg556 (freely accessible online).
Gouet, P. and Courcelle, E. (2002) "ENDscript: a workflow with web interface to display sequence and structure information". Bioinformatics 18(5), 767-768.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.5.767 (freely accessible online).
Gouet, P., Courcelle, E., Stuart, D.I. and Metoz, F. (1999) "ESPript: multiple sequence alignments in PostScript". Bioinformatics 15(4), 305-308.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/15.4.305 (freely accessible online).

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