Bioinformatics:Proteomics:Protein Databases

Bioinformatics:Proteomics:Protein Databases

There are a number of Protein sequence Databases, but it's very important to distinguish between universal databases covering proteins from all species and specialised data collections storing information about specific families or groups of proteins or about proteins of a specific organism.

Universal Databases:
1- The first database that came to mind for this category is the great Swiss-Prot, which is a protein knowledgebase established in 1986 and maintained collaboratively by the Swiss Institute of Bioformatics (SIB) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).

You can access the Database from HERE

2- The second Database is the Protein Information Resource (PIR), PIR is a joint effort between Georgetown University Medical Centre and the National Biomedical Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1984 and resulted from the work of Dr. Margaret Dayhoff.

You can Access the Database from HERE

Specialized Databases:
1- The Protein Data Bank (PDB): This Database contains three-dimensional structural data

You can access the Database from HERE

2- InterPro: Which contains Protein signatures, Domains, Sites...etc
This Database combines a number of Databases such (PROSITE, PRINTS, Pfam, SMART, TIGRFAMS, PIR SuperFamily (PIRSF) and ProDom) and others

You can access the Database from HERE

Note: In this post i mentioned the important and well known Databases, but actually there are many others

Any questions you're welcome.