ELM List Classes

Overview

List short linear motif (SLiM) classes from the ELM database. Each class represents a distinct type of functional motif with a regex pattern, description, and statistics on known instances. Filter by functional type (CLV/DEG/DOC/LIG/MOD/TRG) or search by keyword (e.g., 'caspase', 'phosphorylation', 'nuclear', 'ubiquitin'). The regex patterns can be used to scan protein sequences for potential motif matches. ELM contains 353 motif classes covering cleavage, degradation, docking, ligand binding, modification, and targeting functions.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

15190ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "max_results": {
      "default": 50,
      "description": "Maximum results to return (default: 50, max: 400 covers all classes)",
      "maximum": 400,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "motif_type": {
      "description": "Filter by motif functional type. CLV=cleavage, DEG=degradation, DOC=docking, LIG=ligand binding, MOD=modification, TRG=targeting. Omit for all types.",
      "enum": [
        "CLV",
        "DEG",
        "DOC",
        "LIG",
        "MOD",
        "TRG",
        null
      ],
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "operation": {
      "description": "Operation type",
      "enum": [
        "list_classes"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Search keyword to filter by name, identifier, or description. E.g., 'caspase', 'kinase', 'ubiquitin', 'nuclear'",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "operation"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "max_results": 1,
  "operation": ""
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_ELM_list_classes

Tool name

ELM_list_classes

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

tooluniverse, slow