TY - JOUR
T1 - The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database
AU - Barker, Winona C.
AU - Garavelli, John S.
AU - McGarvey, Peter B.
AU - Marzec, Christopher R.
AU - Orcutt, Bruce C.
AU - Srinivasarao, Geetha Y.
AU - Yeh, Lai Su L.
AU - Ledley, Robert S.
AU - Mewes, Hans Werner
AU - Pfeiffer, Friedhelm
AU - Tsugita, Akira
AU - Wu, Cathy
N1 - Funding Information:
The professional staff of the NBRF acknowledges the assistance and support of Ms Kathryn E. Sidman, PIR Technical Services Coordinator, and Ms Desiree Goins, Project Support Specialist. This publication was supported in part by grant number P41 LM05798 from the National Library of Medicine to NBRF. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Library of Medicine. Work by MIPS was supported by grants from the Bundesministerium für Bildung, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF, FKZ 0311670, 01KW9703/7) and the European Commission (BIOCT-CT-96110). PIR is a registered mark of the NBRF.
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - The Protein Information Resource (PIR; http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/) supports research on molecular evolution, functional genomics, and computational biology by maintaining a comprehensive, non-redundant, well-organized and freely available protein sequence database. Since 1988 the database has been maintained collaboratively by PIR-International, an international association of data collection centers cooperating to develop this resource during a period of explosive growth in new sequence data and new computer technologies. The PIR Protein Sequence Database entries are classified into superfamilies, families and homology domains, for which sequence alignments are available. Full-scale family classification supports comparative genomics research, aids sequence annotation, assists database organization and improves database integrity. The PIR WWW server supports direct on-line sequence similarity searches, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery by providing the Protein Sequence Database and other supplementary databases. Sequence entries are extensively cross-referenced and hypertext-linked to major nucleic acid, literature, genome, structure, sequence alignment and family databases. The weekly release of the Protein Sequence Database can be accessed through the PIR Web site. The quarterly release of the database is freely available from our anonymous FTP server and is also available on CD-ROM with the accompanying ATLAS database search program.
AB - The Protein Information Resource (PIR; http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/) supports research on molecular evolution, functional genomics, and computational biology by maintaining a comprehensive, non-redundant, well-organized and freely available protein sequence database. Since 1988 the database has been maintained collaboratively by PIR-International, an international association of data collection centers cooperating to develop this resource during a period of explosive growth in new sequence data and new computer technologies. The PIR Protein Sequence Database entries are classified into superfamilies, families and homology domains, for which sequence alignments are available. Full-scale family classification supports comparative genomics research, aids sequence annotation, assists database organization and improves database integrity. The PIR WWW server supports direct on-line sequence similarity searches, information retrieval, and knowledge discovery by providing the Protein Sequence Database and other supplementary databases. Sequence entries are extensively cross-referenced and hypertext-linked to major nucleic acid, literature, genome, structure, sequence alignment and family databases. The weekly release of the Protein Sequence Database can be accessed through the PIR Web site. The quarterly release of the database is freely available from our anonymous FTP server and is also available on CD-ROM with the accompanying ATLAS database search program.
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U2 - 10.1093/nar/27.1.39
DO - 10.1093/nar/27.1.39
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 9847137
AN - SCOPUS:0032952820
SN - 0305-1048
VL - 27
SP - 39
EP - 43
JO - Nucleic Acids Research
JF - Nucleic Acids Research
IS - 1
ER -
