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SUBMITTER: Attwood TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3326521 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Attwood Teresa K TK Coletta Alain A Muirhead Gareth G Pavlopoulou Athanasia A Philippou Peter B PB Popov Ivan I Romá-Mateo Carlos C Theodosiou Athina A Mitchell Alex L AL
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation 20120415
The PRINTS database, now in its 21st year, houses a collection of diagnostic protein family 'fingerprints'. Fingerprints are groups of conserved motifs, evident in multiple sequence alignments, whose unique inter-relationships provide distinctive signatures for particular protein families and structural/functional domains. As such, they may be used to assign uncharacterized sequences to known families, and hence to infer tentative functional, structural and/or evolutionary relationships. The Feb ...[more]