Table 1

Useful tools and resources for protein family, domain and motif analysis

Database
Description
URL
Published reference

Blocks
Database of protein alignment blocks
http://blocks.fhcrc.org
[19]
CDD
Conserved domain database
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml
[47]
CluSTr
Clusters of SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL proteins
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustr/
[34]
DOMO
Protein-domain database based on sequence alignments
http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/domo/
[24]
InterPro
Integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/
[49]
IProClass
Integrated protein classification database
http://pir.georgetown.edu/iproclass/
[45]
MetaFam
Database of protein family information
http://metafam.ahc.umn.edu/
[43]
Pfam
Collection of multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Pfam/
[13]
PIR
Protein Information Resource
http://pir.georgetown.edu/
[4]
PIR-ALN
Curated database of protein sequence alignments
http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/dbinfo/piraln.html
[26]
PRINTS-S
Compendium of protein fingerprints
http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/
[11]
ProClass
Non-redundant protein database organized by family relationships
http://pir.georgetown.edu/gfserver/proclass.html
[28]
ProDom
Automatic compilation of homologous domains
http://prodes.toulouse.inra.fr/prodom/doc/prodom.html
[21]
PROSITE
Database of patterns and profiles describing protein families and domains
http://www.expasy.ch/prosite/
[9]
ProtoMap
Automatic hierarchical classification of SWISS-PROT proteins
http://www.protomap.cs.huji.ac.il/
[30]
SBASE
Curated protein domain library based on sequence clustering
http://www3.icgeb.trieste.it/~sbasesrv/
[51]
SMART
Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool - a collection of protein families and domains
http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/
[15]
SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL
Protein sequence databases
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot/ or http://www.expasy.org/sprot/
[2]
SYSTERS
Systematic re-searching method for sequence searching and clustering
http://systers.molgen.mpg.de/
[32]
TIGRFAMs
Protein families based on hidden Markov models
http://www.tigr.org/TIGRFAMs/
[17]

Mulder and Apweiler Genome Biology 2001 3:reviews2001.1   doi:10.1186/gb-2001-3-1-reviews2001