PRINTS is a compendium of protein fingerprints. 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. References
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