title: PROMOT: a FORTRAN program to scan protein sequences against a library of known motifs.
abstract: Information about the three-dimensional structure or function of a newly determined protein sequence can be obtained if the protein is found to contain a characterized motif or pattern of residues. Recently a database (PROSITE) has been established that contains 337 known motifs encoded as a list of allowed residue types at specific positions along the sequence. PROMOT is a FORTRAN computer program that takes a protein sequence and examines if it contains any of the motifs in PROSITE. The program also extends the definitions of patterns beyond those used in PROSITE to provide a simple, yet flexible, method to scan either a PROSITE or a user-defined pattern against a protein sequence database.
authors.affiliation: Biomolecular Modelling Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, UK.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Sternberg
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D015723:Gene Library; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011381:Programming Languages; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins