Removing redundancy in SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL.
CONCLUSIONS
One of the distinguishing criteria of the SWISS-PROT protein sequence data bank is minimal redundancy. The introduction of TrEMBL as a supplementary database ensured the comprehensiveness of SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL but introduced some degree of redundancy. We developed a strategy to identify the redundancy present within and between SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL and its subsequent removal.


BACKGROUND
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O'Donovan
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EMBL Outstation - The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. odonovan@ebi.ac.uk
Martin
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Glemet
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Codani
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Apweiler
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D000465:Algorithms; D016208:Databases, Factual; D014644:Genetic Variation; D009154:Mutation; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012984:Software
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