The PROSITE database consists of a large collection of biologically meaningful signatures that are described as patterns or profiles. Each signature is linked to documentation that provides useful biological information on the protein family, domain or functional site identified by the signature. The PROSITE web page has been redesigned and several tools have been implemented to help the user d...

Abstract Plants have evolved various mechanisms of adjusting their diurnal and seasonal growth development in response to variations day length light quality. This plasticity is facilitated by intricate regulatory networks that comprise transcription factors, whose expression modulated the activity photoreceptors. In Arabidopsis , B-box (BBX) which contain one or two Zn-ligating motifs N-termin...

H invasive pancreatic tumors are often recognized in late stages due to a lack of clear symptoms and pose major challenges for treatment and disease management. Broad-band Protein Kinase D (PKD) inhibitors have recently been proposed as additional treatment option for this disease. PKDs are implicated in the control of cancer cell motility, angiogenesis, proliferation and metastasis. In particu...

We propose a novel method for crowdsourcing a protein family database. We discuss how we intend to identify novel groupings of proteins from user sequence similarity search, and how text mining will be applied to assist in annotation of these novel groupings, and more broadly as an enrichment of protein sequence similarity search results. We intend to use entity linking to identify literature w...

Similarities between different protein structures have led to the identification of protein families based upon some measure of structural similarity. Using these similarities one can classify proteins into structural families and higher-order groupings from which inferred function can be transferred. When taken for a large number of proteins, these schemes point to evolutionary relationships b...