title: The PROSITE database, its status in 1997.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. bairoch@cmu.unige.ch
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: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016208:Databases, Factual; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins