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Everything about PROSITE
Database of protein domains, families and functional sites
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 2018, the director of PROSITE and Swiss-Prot is Alan Bridge. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: PROSITEA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The PROSITE database for protein families, domains, and sitesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: PrositThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: ScanProsite: detection of PROSITE signature matches and ProRule-associated functional and structural residues in proteinsCited 1,525 times
- Go sideways: Amos BairochA closely related topic
- Go sideways: InterProA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
ScanProsite: detection of PROSITE signature matches and ProRule-associated functional and structural residues in proteins
New and continuing developments at PROSITE
The PROSITE database, its status in 1999
The PROSITE database
The PROSITE database, its status in 2002
PROSITE: A documented database using patterns and profiles as motif descriptors
PROSITE, a protein domain database for functional characterization and annotation
The PROSITE database, its status in 1997
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕PrositAmbrose Bierce, Clotho · 2008
- 📕Prosit prazdnika dusha..Puzikova L.B. · 2004
- 📕Prosit proza poëzieRia Scarphout · 1972
- 📕PrositMara Soldi Maretti · 1985
- 📕Prosit FeldwebelAlain Guyenne · 1975
- 📕Prosit!Chris Harrison · 2015
- 📕Smiem prosiť?Milan Lechan · 1978
- 📕Prosite
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