The PROSITE database, its status in 1999

K Hofmann; P Bucher; L Falquet; A Bairoch

doi:10.1093/nar/27.1.215

The PROSITE database, its status in 1999

Nucleic Acids Res. 1999 Jan 1;27(1):215-9. doi: 10.1093/nar/27.1.215.

Authors

K Hofmann¹, P Bucher, L Falquet, A Bairoch

Affiliation

¹ MEMOREC, Stoffel GmbH, Stoeckheimer Weg 1, D-50829 Koeln, Germany, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), CH-1066 Epalinges/Lausanne, Switzerland.

Abstract

The PROSITE database (http://www.expasy.ch/sprot/prosite.htm l) consists of biologically significant patterns and profiles formulated in such a way that with appropriate computational tools it can help to determine to which known family of protein (if any) a new sequence belongs, or which known domain(s) it contains.

MeSH terms

Binding Sites
Databases, Factual*
Information Storage and Retrieval
Internet
Protein Conformation
Proteins / chemistry
Proteins / physiology*
Sequence Alignment
Software

Substances

Proteins