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. 2002 Jan 1;30(1):235-8.
doi: 10.1093/nar/30.1.235.

The PROSITE database, its status in 2002

Laurent Falquet  1 , Marco Pagni, Philipp Bucher, Nicolas Hulo, Christian J A Sigrist, Kay Hofmann, Amos Bairoch
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The PROSITE database, its status in 2002

Laurent Falquet et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

PROSITE [Bairoch and Bucher (1994) Nucleic Acids Res., 22, 3583-3589; Hofmann et al. (1999) Nucleic Acids Res., 27, 215-219] is a method of identifying the functions of uncharacterized proteins translated from genomic or cDNA sequences. The PROSITE database (http://www.expasy.org/prosite/) consists of biologically significant patterns and profiles designed in such a way that with appropriate computational tools it can rapidly and reliably help to determine to which known family of proteins (if any) a new sequence belongs, or which known domain(s) it contains.

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