title: The PROSITE database, its status in 1999.
abstract: The PROSITE database (http://www.expasy.ch/sprot/prosite.htm l) 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: MEMOREC, Stoffel GmbH, Stoeckheimer Weg 1, D-50829 Koeln, Germany, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), CH-1066 Epalinges/Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hofmann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bucher
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Falquet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bairoch
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D016208:Databases, Factual; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins