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The PROSITE database, its status in 1997.

Nucleic acids research ·Vol. 25 ·No. 1 ·1997-01-01 ·Pages 217-21

Bairoch A, Bucher P, Hofmann K

Abstract

The PROSITE database 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
Amino Acid Sequence Animals Computer Communication Networks Databases, Factual Proteins/genetics,physiology Software
Chemicals
Proteins
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Bairoch A
Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. [email protected]
Bucher P
Hofmann K
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Article Info
Journal
Nucleic acids research
Abbr.
Nucleic Acids Res
ISSN
0305-1048
DOI
10.1093/nar/25.1.217
Email
[email protected]
Published
1997-01-01
Pages
217-21
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0411011
PMCID
PMC146371
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.1.217 PMC Full Text View journal details
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