| Name | FORTE |
| Aliases | None |
| Description | FORTE is a profile-profile comparison tool for protein fold recognition. Users can submit a protein sequence to explore the possibilities of structural similarity existing in known structures. Results are reported in the form of pairwise alignments. |
| Type | Tool |
| Main Institutes of management | Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) |
| Country of the Institute | Japan |
| URL of the site | http://forteprtl.cbrc.jp/forte/ |
| Interface | GUI |
| Input | Amino acid sequence(FASTA format) |
| Output | Template structure(Text(TSV)) |
| Input example | Users can provide an amino acid sequence of a query protein in the FASTA format. Users can paste or upload a text file of query sequence. Then, users click the "submit" button. |
| Keyword | protein | structures | pairwise alignments | amino-acid sequence |
| Amount of the all data for download(Mbyte) | Method to obtain the all data. | 0.0|None |
| External resources (databases) in building the product. | NCBI | ASTRAL |
| Data type | Protein-structure |
| Biological species in the main concern | All species |
| Conditions of use | FORTE is free to academic and non-profit users for non-commercial use. Use of the FORTE application for commercial use requires a license agreement. |
| Frequency of updates (in last two years) | 147 |
| Last date of updates (date of confirmation) | 2014/03/26 (2019/06/03) |
| Main IDs used in the products | None |
| How to make a link to get access to each IDs. | N/A |
| external databases to which this database/tool have links | None |
| Published papers (PubMed IDs) | pmid:14764565 | pmid:16187352 |
| Operational Status | Available |