title: The PROSITE database, its status in 1995.
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 proteins (if any) a new sequence belongs or which known domain(s) it contains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bairoch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bucher
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hofmann
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016208:Databases, Factual; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins