RAFTS3G – An efficient and versatile clustering software to analyses in large protein datasets

The need to develop computational tools and techniques that can predict efficiently consistent groups of family proteins in large volume of biological information is still a great perspective in Bioinformatic studies. Besides that, it is difficult to increase speed demanding low computational processing to minimize the information complexity. Tools already consolidated as the CD-HIT and UCLUST generates very compact data that makes the Data Mining difficult and have low efficiency when used for detect homology among proteins requiring manual intervention, therefore it is necessary a tool that is also efficient in low similarity. Here we present a new approach for the Data Mining and analysis of homology in large dataset of protein sequences, the RAFTS 3 G. We used the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot database with the most popular clustering tools and RAFTS 3 G proved to be more than 10 times faster than CD-HIT and its strategy increases the performance in low similarity to detect protein families. Contact: [email protected]