title: Swiss-Prot: juggling between evolution and stability.
abstract: We describe some of the aspects of Swiss-Prot that make it unique, explain what are the developments we believe to be necessary for the database to continue to play its role as a focal point of protein knowledge, and provide advice pertinent to the development of high-quality knowledge resources on one aspect or the other of the life sciences.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Medical Universitaire, 1 Rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. swiss-prot@expasy.org
authors.forename: Amos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bairoch
authors.forename: Brigitte
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boeckmann
authors.forename: Serenella
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferro
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gasteiger
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D030562:Databases, Protein / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D011506:Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins