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Table 2 Public databases exploited for the construction of protein profiles

From: Think globally and solve locally: secondary memory-based network learning for automated multi-species function prediction

Database

Description

Pfam [30]

Protein domain

Protein superfamilies [31]

Structural and functional annotations

PRINTS [32]

Motif fingerprints

PROSITE [33]

Protein domains and families

InterPro [34]

Integrated resource of protein families, domains and functional sites

EggNOG [35]

Evolutionary genealogy of genes: Non-supervised Orthologous Groups

SMART [36]

Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool (database annotations)

Swissprot

Manually curated keywords describing the function of the proteins

 

at different degrees of abstraction