Full description
A protein motif fingerprint database maintained at the University of
Manchester. A fingerprint is a group of conserved motifs used to
characterise a protein family; its diagnostic power is refined by
iterative scanning of a SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL composite. Usually the motifs
do not overlap, but are separated along a sequence, though they may be
contiguous in 3D-space. Fingerprints can encode protein folds and
functionalities more flexibly and powerfully than can single motifs,
full diagnostic potency deriving from the mutual context provided by
motif neighbours.
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