The BioInformer nr. 2, 1997 -- PRINTS 16




	A publication of EMBL - Outstation Hinxton, The European Bioinformatics Institute


		PRINTS 16.0 Introduction PRINTS is a compendium of protein fingerprints. A fingerprint is a group of conserved motifs used to characterise a protein family; its diagnostic power is refined by iterative scanning of OWL. Usually the motifs do not overlap, but are separated along a sequence, though they may be contiguous in 3D-space. Fingerprints can encode protein folds and functionalities more flexibly and powerfully than can single motifs: the database thus provides a useful adjunct to PROSITE. The PRINTS database contains now 750 entries: 2 single-motif fingerprints 748 multiple-motif fingerprints (350 available in PROSITE) Availability The PRINTS database is available at several anonymous ftp sites, and can be queried online. The EMBL CD-ROMs also contain the database. Information provied by: Terry Attwood Resources and further information University College London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/ PRINTS homepage http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/dbbrowser/PRINTS/PRINT S.html Download PRINTS at University College London, UK ftp://ftp.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/pub/prints/ European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/prints/ External sites are not endorsed by EMBL-EBI

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