PATTERNS AND PROFILES
PROTEIN MOTIFS, DOMAINS AND FAMILIES

Presentations

• Patterns and Profiles. Protein Motifs, Domains and Families

Practical lessons

1. Patterns and Profiles. Protein Motifs, Domains and Families

A selection of links

• Blocks. Multiple alignments of the most highly conserved regions of groups of proteins documented in InterPro.
• InterPro. Integrated view of commonly used motif databases.
• MetaFam Protein Family Database. Comprehensive database of protein family information.
• Motif. Scans sequences to find motifs, databases to find sequences that match profiles or patterns and generates profiles from sequences provised by the user.
• Pfam, at Sanger. Multiple sequence alignments and HMMs of protein domains and families, at Sanger Institute.
• Pfam, at Saint Louis
• Pfam, at Karolinska
• Pfam, at INRA
• PRINTS. Database of groups of conserved motifs, or protein fingerprints.
• ProDom. Protein domain families automatically generated from SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL.
• PROSITE. Database of protein families and domains, defined by patterns and profiles, at ExPASy.
• SMART. Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool, at EMBL.