PRINTS-S: the database formerly known as PRINTS

TLDR

The PRINTS database contains protein family fingerprints—motif groups that are more diagnostically powerful than single motifs due to contextual matching—and now holds about 1,200 fingerprints. The paper reports major updates to the PRINTS resource, including an automated maintenance strategy and an object‑relational database schema. The database, accessible via BLAST, fingerprint, and text searches at http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/, incorporates an automated maintenance workflow and an object‑relational schema to improve data management. Version 24.0 released in September 1999 contains approximately 7,200 motifs covering globular and membrane proteins, modular polypeptides, and related families.

Abstract

The PRINTS database houses a collection of protein family fingerprints. These are groups of motifs that together are diagnostically more potent than single motifs by virtue of the biological context afforded by matching motif neighbours. Around 1200 fingerprints have now been created and stored in the database. The September 1999 release (version 24.0) encodes ~7200 motifs, covering a range of globular and membrane proteins, modular polypeptides and so on. In addition to its continued steady growth, we report here several major changes to the resource, including the design of an automated strategy for database maintenance, and implementation of an object-relational schema for more efficient data management. The database is accessible for BLAST, fingerprint and text searches at http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/