title: Identification of motifs in protein sequences.
abstract: This brief appendix serves as a guide for the analysis of functional motifs in proteins. Several database search engines that can be accessed via the World Wide Web are described. Such computerized searches have become the preferred method to scan large sequence and motif databases, as the searches are efficient and the databases are updated frequently. A short list of sorting signals is also included, since these motifs often cannot be predicted reliably by a computer search.
authors.affiliation: Center for Genomics Research, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Sonnhammer
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Wolfsberg
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins