A comparison of Pfam and MEROPS: Two database, one comprehensive, and one specialised

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Studholme, David J ^a   Rawlings, Neil D ^a   Barrett, Alan J ^a   Bateman, Alex ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDASE; PROTEINASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PROTEASOME; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEROPS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PFAM; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; RETROVIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; RETROVIRIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0642371095     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-4-17     Document Type: Article

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