Removing redundancy in SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL

C O'Donovan; M J Martin; E Glemet; J J Codani; R Apweiler

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/15.3.258

Removing redundancy in SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL

Bioinformatics. 1999 Mar;15(3):258-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/15.3.258.

Authors

C O'Donovan¹, M J Martin, E Glemet, J J Codani, R Apweiler

Affiliation

¹ EMBL Outstation - The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. odonovan@ebi.ac.uk

PMID: 10222414
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/15.3.258

Abstract

Summary: One of the distinguishing criteria of the SWISS-PROT protein sequence data bank is minimal redundancy. The introduction of TrEMBL as a supplementary database ensured the comprehensiveness of SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL but introduced some degree of redundancy. We developed a strategy to identify the redundancy present within and between SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL and its subsequent removal.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Databases, Factual*
Genetic Variation
Mutation
Polymorphism, Genetic
Proteins / genetics*
Sequence Analysis / methods
Sequence Analysis / statistics & numerical data
Software

Substances

Proteins