Webservice | DefenseFinder webservice and knowledge base

Defense Finder

Welcome on DefenseFinder's web page. On this site, you can freely use (without any login) the DefenseFinder webservice (see below) and get help to navigate the ever expanding world of defense systems. There is a collaborative knowledge base of defense systems that provide essential information on any given defense systems. You can further explore defense systems across all fully sequenced bacteria and get insight on the structure of each protein of those systems thanks to protein structure prediction using alphafold for monomer and dimers.

We encourage you to contribute to this knowledge database, and if you see any non up-to-date information, let us know, or contribute yourself

Defense Finder Webservice

Run Defense Finder analysis. It accepts both proteic and nucleic fasta files as inputs. The format is guessed automatically

A Run usually takes a couple of minutes. You can find your last run in the Analyses panel on the left.

Multiple analyses can be run at the same time, they can all be found in the Analyses panel.

Errors most often arise from incorrect input formats: make sure you are using a valid fasta file as input.

List defense systems

The list of all systems describes in the knowledge database can be found here.

DefenseFinder issues

Any issues concerning DefenseFinder, the software, can be raised here.

Wiki issues

Any issues concerning the knowledge database website can be raised here.