Prosite Database of Protein families & Domains

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Introduction

PROSITE is a database of protein families, motifs & domains. It consists of biologically significant sites, patterns & profiles that help to reliably identify to which known protein family (if any) a new sequence belongs.

More general terms

References

  1. Hulo N., Sigrist C.J.A., Le Saux V., Langendijk-Genevaux P.S., Bordoli L., Gattiker A., De Castro E., Bucher P., Bairoch A. Recent improvements to the PROSITE database Nucl. Acids. Res. 32:D134-D137(2004) Sigrist C.J.A., Cerutti L., Hulo N., Gattiker A., Falquet L., Pagni M., Bairoch A., Bucher P.PROSITE: a documented database using patterns and profiles as motif descriptors. Brief Bioinform. 3:265-274(2002). Prosite Database of Protein families & Domains http://us.expasy.org/prosite/