The SWISS-PROT protein knowledgebase and its supplement TrEMBL in 2003
Abstract
The SWISS-PROT protein knowledgebase (http://www.expasy.org/sprot/ and http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot/) connects amino acid sequences with the current knowledge in the Life Sciences. Each protein entry provides an interdisciplinary overview of relevant information by bringing together experimental results, computed features and sometimes even contradictory conclusions. Detailed expertise that goes beyond the scope of SWISS-PROT is made available via direct links to specialised databases. SWISS-PROT provides annotated entries for all species, but concentrates on the annotation of entries from human (the HPI project) and other model organisms to ensure the presence of high quality annotation for representative members of all protein families. Part of the annotation can be transferred to other family members, as is already done for microbes by the High-quality Automated and Manual Annotation of microbial Proteomes (HAMAP) project. Protein families and groups of proteins are regularly reviewed to keep up with current scientific findings. Complementarily, TrEMBL strives to comprise all protein sequences that are not yet represented in SWISS-PROT, by incorporating a perpetually increasing level of mostly automated annotation. Researchers are welcome to contribute their knowledge to the scientific community by submitting relevant findings to SWISS-PROT at gro.ysapxe@torp-ssiws.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We wish to thank Andrea Auchincloss, Livia Famiglietti and Michele Magrane for helpful discussions, and Vivienne Baillie Gerritsen for the correction of the manuscript. All statistical information given in this article is retrieved from SWISS-PROT release 40.27 (August 2002) and TrEMBL release 21.10 (September 2002), respectively.
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