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Contact pirmail@nbrf.georgetown.edu
The Protein Information Resource, in collaboration with the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS) and the Japan International Protein Information Database (JIPID), produces the most comprehensive and expertly annotated protein sequence database in the public domain, the PIR-International Protein Sequence Database. To provide timely and high quality annotation and promote database interoperability, the PIR-International employs rule-based and classification-driven procedures based on controlled vocabulary and standard nomenclature and includes status tags to distinguish experimentally determined from predicted protein features. The database contains more than 250,000 non-redundant protein sequences, which are classified into families and superfamilies and their domains and motifs identified. Entries are extensively cross-referenced to other sequence, classification, genome, structure, and activity databases. The PIR Web site features search engines that use sequence similarity and database annotation to facilitate the analysis and functional identification of proteins. The PIR-International databases and search tools are accessible on the PIR Web site at http://pir.georgetown.edu/ and at the MIPS Web site at http://www.mips.biochem.mpg.de. The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database and other files are also available by FTP
PIR-PSD is now implemented in Oracle object-relational database and is available in XML format with DTD.
The PIR is supported by NLM grant LM05798.
Category Protein Databases
Go to the abstract in the NAR 2002 Database Issue.