Pfam: Clans, Web Tools and Services

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2005 Dec 31

PMID 16381856

Citations 1078

Authors

Robert D Finn

Jaina Mistry

Benjamin Schuster-Bockler

Sam Griffiths-Jones

Volker Hollich

Timo Lassmann

Simon Moxon

Mhairi Marshall

Ajay Khanna

Richard Durbin

Sean R Eddy

Erik L L Sonnhammer

Alex Bateman

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Abstract

Pfam is a database of protein families that currently contains 7973 entries (release 18.0). A recent development in Pfam has enabled the grouping of related families into clans. Pfam clans are described in detail, together with the new associated web pages. Improvements to the range of Pfam web tools and the first set of Pfam web services that allow programmatic access to the database and associated tools are also presented. Pfam is available on the web in the UK (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Pfam/), the USA (http://pfam.wustl.edu/), France (http://pfam.jouy.inra.fr/) and Sweden (http://pfam.cgb.ki.se/).

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