Database Description

Structure Databases - Protein structure

This database has the positional information in the amino acid motif structure. The information is identified by experiments or sequence analysis (homology search and multiple alignment). We use PROSITE and BLOCKS as amino acid motif databases. PROSITE has motives from experiments, and BLOCKS has motives from both experiments and sequence analysis. We use PDB as the protein structure database and decide the motif position from SEQRES and ATOM sequences. The reason we need SEQRES and ATOM sequences is because those are not matched in some PDB entries.

This database is aimed to make researchers in bioinformatics, biochemistry or structural biology understand quickly protein function structures.
You can use this database together with “Database of conformation changes in protein structures” (ConfC) to get the picture of protein structure-function relationship dynamically and predict function sites.