InterPro
Sign in to saveInterPro is a database of protein families, protein domains and functional sites in which identifiable features found in known proteins can be applied to new protein sequences in order to functionally characterise them.
Key facts
- Biodatabase.title
- InterPro
- Biodatabase.logo
- File:InterPro_logo.png
- Biodatabase.description
- InterPro functionally analyzes protein sequences and classifies them into protein families while predicting the presence of domains and functional sites.
- Biodatabase.center
- EMBL
- Biodatabase.laboratory
- European Bioinformatics Institute
- Biodatabase.citation
- The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on
- Biodatabase.released
- 1999
- Biodatabase.download
- ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/interpro/
- Biodatabase.frequency
- 8-weekly
- Biodatabase.version
- 97.0 ()
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- biological database
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Main subject
- biology
- Official website
- www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro
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- EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Data contained in InterPro
- InterPro consortium member databases
- Data types
- InterPro entry types
- Access
- InterPro application programming interface (API)
- InterProScan
- See also
- References
- External links
InterPro is a database of protein families, protein domains and functional sites in which identifiable features found in known proteins can be applied to new protein sequences in order to functionally characterise them.
The contents of InterPro consist of diagnostic signatures and the proteins that they significantly match. The signatures consist of models (simple types, such as regular expressions or more complex ones, such as Hidden Markov models) which describe protein families, domains or sites. Unknown sequences are searched to create homology models. Each of the member databases of InterPro contributes towards a different niche, from very high-level, structure-based classifications (SUPERFAMILY and CATH-Gene3D) through to quite specific sub-family classifications (PRINTS and PANTHER).
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