PIR: a new resource for bioinformatics

Bioinformatics. 2000 Mar;16(3):290-1. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/16.3.290.

Abstract

The Protein Information Resource (PIR) has greatly expanded its Web site and developed a set of interactive search and analysis tools to facilitate the analysis, annotation, and functional identification of proteins. New search engines have been implemented to combine sequence similarity search results with database annotation information. The new PIR search systems have proved very useful in providing enriched functional annotation of protein sequences, determining protein superfamily-domain relationships, and detecting annotation errors in genomic database archives.

Availability: http://pir.georgetown.edu/.

Contact: [email protected]

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Caenorhabditis elegans / enzymology
  • Caenorhabditis elegans / genetics
  • Computational Biology*
  • Databases, Factual*
  • Helminth Proteins / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / genetics*
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / metabolism
  • Sulfate Adenylyltransferase / genetics*
  • Sulfate Adenylyltransferase / metabolism

Substances

  • Helminth Proteins
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)
  • adenylylsulfate kinase
  • Sulfate Adenylyltransferase