InterPro: the integrative protein signature database - PubMed
. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D211-5.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn785. Epub 2008 Oct 21.
Rolf Apweiler, Teresa K Attwood, Amos Bairoch, Alex Bateman, David Binns, Peer Bork, Ujjwal Das, Louise Daugherty, Lauranne Duquenne, Robert D Finn, Julian Gough, Daniel Haft, Nicolas Hulo, Daniel Kahn, Elizabeth Kelly, Aurélie Laugraud, Ivica Letunic, David Lonsdale, Rodrigo Lopez, Martin Madera, John Maslen, Craig McAnulla, Jennifer McDowall, Jaina Mistry, Alex Mitchell, Nicola Mulder, Darren Natale, Christine Orengo, Antony F Quinn, Jeremy D Selengut, Christian J A Sigrist, Manjula Thimma, Paul D Thomas, Franck Valentin, Derek Wilson, Cathy H Wu, Corin Yeats
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- DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn785
InterPro: the integrative protein signature database
Sarah Hunter et al. Nucleic Acids Res. 2009 Jan.
Abstract
The InterPro database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/) integrates together predictive models or 'signatures' representing protein domains, families and functional sites from multiple, diverse source databases: Gene3D, PANTHER, Pfam, PIRSF, PRINTS, ProDom, PROSITE, SMART, SUPERFAMILY and TIGRFAMs. Integration is performed manually and approximately half of the total approximately 58,000 signatures available in the source databases belong to an InterPro entry. Recently, we have started to also display the remaining un-integrated signatures via our web interface. Other developments include the provision of non-signature data, such as structural data, in new XML files on our FTP site, as well as the inclusion of matchless UniProtKB proteins in the existing match XML files. The web interface has been extended and now links out to the ADAN predicted protein-protein interaction database and the SPICE and Dasty viewers. The latest public release (v18.0) covers 79.8% of UniProtKB (v14.1) and consists of 16 549 entries. InterPro data may be accessed either via the web address above, via web services, by downloading files by anonymous FTP or by using the InterProScan search software (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/InterProScan/).
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Trends in number of signatures integrated into a single entry, categorized by the year the entry was first created. Initially, these entries would have only contained signatures from the founding four consortium members. However, as other member databases joined, they also may have had signatures covering the same families and domains which consequently also became integrated into these entries, leading to the totals we see today. Note that the number of signatures integrated in a single year can vary (between 1000 and 5000 signatures) dependent on the member databases’ release cycles.
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