Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!olivea!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!cmgm.stanford.edu!brutlag From: brutlag@cmgm.stanford.edu (Douglas Brutlag) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.proteins Subject: Re: Protein databases Keywords: protein function, protein structure, protein databases Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 04:17:49 GMT References: <1991May20.041756.7424@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991May22.182730.16999@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 18 jwarren@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (John Warren) writes: >Does anyone have any information regarding databases that enable a user to >find proteins by their functions, or the functions of a protein by its >sequence or name? The GenBank Online Service used the IRX program which lets one select any subset of protein sequences from PIR or Swiss-Prot or GenPept (which is updated daily) by any word in the annotations. This lets you find any protein by its name or by function, such as all dehydrogenases etc. Since Swiss-Prot also includes super family as a descriptor you can get all members of a superfamily. Because of its descriptors, many other implementations of the Swiss-Prot database allow one to isolate proteins by function such as the one in the PC/Gene program. Doug Brutlag