Table 1.

Results of the ScanProsite search of the 16 569 predicted Solenopsis invicta proteins against the complete set of PROSITE patterns and profiles

	Patterns a	Profiles
Total number of PROSITE signature matches in all proteins	4903	9664
Number of distinct proteins matching PROSITE signatures	2696	4349
Number of distinct PROSITE signatures matched	626	622
Number of proteins annotated with one or more functional sites	520	1693
Total number of functional sites annotated	744	7022
Number of distinct PROSITE signatures providing annotation for functional sites	74	148
Total number of detected domains annotated with functional sites	606	3397

^aPattern hits are validated by automatically generated ‘miniprofiles’ that assign a status to pattern matches (8).