This is a test version of Biostars. For the public version, visit https://www.biostars.org.
Simple tools for creation of figures of gene and protein structure

Is there an online/simple and free tool for creating figures of gene and protein with its features/domains? Simple figures, like a bar representing the gene?protein and smaller bars inside it representing motifs/domains.

Thank you

gene protein

Yes, but all the answers on the pages that you linked me are 9+ years old. But thank you anyway

Yes there is:

https://genesearchtool.com/

Gene explorer lets you see pathway visualizations, generate topology diagrams, all for FREE. It has many other cool functions too!

Gene Explorer!

Recently developed. Lets you see any information on any gene, lets you see pathway visualizations, export gene/protien data, and make protein structure topology diagrams. All for FREE!

3 answers

There is a whole list of programs in that group:

https://cmdcolin.github.io/awesome-genome-visualization/?latest=true&tag=Protein

Not in the list:

https://github.com/LKremer/showTree

Up until a month ago this was working (I used it for a recent paper), but not any more:

http://pfam-legacy.xfam.org/generate_graphic

The closest replacement for that functionality:

https://github.com/ProteinsWebTeam/domain-gfx

UCSC Genome Browser

Yes, check out the Genomics 2 Proteins portal. The tool allow you to map any feature, including domains onto a protein structure and capture high resolution images of both the features in sequence and structure.

You should also check out the UniProt Structure viewer and RCSB PDB Sequence Structure viewer. These won't let you capture a high resolution image of the sequence, but will for the structure. You may not be able to highlight all domains with these, but you could highlight 1 domain at a time in each of these tools and capture a high resolution image.

Offline, you can use the PyMOL viewer. You will need to annotate the domains though, so this may not address your needs.

Log in to answer this question.