OWL is a non-redundant composite of 4 publicly-available primary sources: SWISS-PROT, PIR (1-3), GenBank (translation) and NRL-3D . SWISS-PROT is the highest priority source, all others being compared against it to eliminate identical and trivially-different sequences. The strict redundancy criteria render OWL relatively "small" and hence efficient in similarity searches. References.
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