BLAST PRINTS--alternative perspectives on sequence similarity.
CONCLUSIONS
An implementation of BLAST for searching the PRINTS database is presented. The interface allows submission of either protein or DNA queries, and returns the familiar form of output, but modified by means of direct links both to the familial discriminators in PRINTS and to fingerprint profile visualization software. The server thus couples the rapidity of BLAST searching with the sensitivity of fingerprint diagnoses, providing alternative perspectives on a given query.


BACKGROUND
http://www.biochem.ucl. ac.uk/cgi-bin/wright/printsBLAST.cgi
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School of Biological Sciences, Stopford Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 6PT, UK. wright@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk
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D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012984:Software
D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA