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PROSITE

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Primary citation
  
PMID 19858104

Website
  
prosite.expasy.org

Release date
  
1988 (1988)

Description
  
PROSITE, a protein domain database for functional characterization and annotation.

Research center
  
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Laboratory
  
Structural Biology and Bioinformatics Department

PROSITE is a protein database. It consists of entries describing the protein families, domains and functional sites as well as amino acid patterns and profiles in them. These are manually curated by a team of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and tightly integrated into Swiss-Prot protein annotation. PROSITE was created in 1988 by Amos Bairoch, who directed the group for more than 20 years. Since July 2009, the director of the PROSITE, Swiss-Prot and Vital-IT groups is Ioannis Xenarios.

PROSITE's uses include identifying possible functions of newly discovered proteins and analysis of known proteins for previously undetermined activity. Properties from well-studied genes can be propagated to biologically related organisms, and for different or poorly known genes biochemical functions can be predicted from similarities. PROSITE offers tools for protein sequence analysis and motif detection (see sequence motif, PROSITE patterns). It is part of the ExPASy proteomics analysis servers.

The database ProRule builds on the domain descriptions of PROSITE. It provides additional information about functionally or structurally critical amino acids. The rules contain information about biologically meaningful residues, like active sites, substrate- or co-factor-binding sites, posttranslational modification sites or disulfide bonds, to help function determination. These can automatically generate annotation based on PROSITE motifs.

Statistics

As of 29 June 2016, release 20.128 has 1,762 documentation entries, 1,309 patterns, 1,161 profiles, and 1,175 ProRules.

References

PROSITE Wikipedia