title: PRINTS and its automatic supplement, prePRINTS.
abstract: The PRINTS database houses a collection of protein fingerprints. These may be used to assign uncharacterised sequences to known families and hence to infer tentative functions. The September 2002 release (version 36.0) includes 1800 fingerprints, encoding approximately 11 000 motifs, covering a range of globular and membrane proteins, modular polypeptides and so on. In addition to its continued steady growth, we report here the development of an automatic supplement, prePRINTS, designed to increase the coverage of the resource and reduce some of the manual burdens inherent in its maintenance. The databases are accessible for interrogation and searching at http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences and Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. attwood@bioinf.man.ac.uk
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Attwood
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bradley
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Flower
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaulton
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maudling
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moulton
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nordle
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Paine
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Uddin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zygouri
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000818:Animals; D001331:Automation; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D030562:Databases, Protein; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins