The SCANPS VERSION 2.3.9 protein sequence scanning package - User Guide.

SCANPS version 2 is a sequence database searching program that implements a range of sensitive algorithms for searching protein sequence databases.  It has been optimised to run on Linux PC farms. 

pdf manual - postscript manual.
 
EBI supports a searching service based on SCANPS.
An experimental search server is also available at Dundee.
 

Download scanps here.

Although it is now obsolete, some comments on SCANPS version 1 which was quite different from Version 2 are included below.

The SCANPS Version 1 protein database scanning package - User Guide.

SCANPS is a program for rigorous database scanning using a derivative of the Smith-Waterman algorithm. It is fast enough to use routinely on a workstation and is currently available in binary form for Sun and Silicon Graphics. You can download the package from our distribution page. See Barton (1992a) and here, for a short discussion of computer speed and database size.  

This site was last updated: Thursday, 23 June, 2005

Geoff Barton, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research, University of Dundee, Scotland