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The PROSITE database, its status in 1997

Amos Bairoch, Philip Bucher, Kay Hofmann

Nucleic Acids Research · 1997 · 1.8K citations · 14 references

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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.

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