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. 1997 Jan 1;25(1):217–221. doi: 10.1093/nar/25.1.217

The PROSITE database, its status in 1997.

A Bairoch 1, P Bucher 1, K Hofmann 1
PMCID: PMC146371  PMID: 9016539

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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