Plant & Animal Genome IX Conference

Workshop: Databases, Gene Systematics, and Nomenclature
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WHOLE PROTEOME ANALYSIS: THE ROLE OF InterPro AND CluSTr

EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

The genome sequencing projects are providing a vast amount of sequence data that remains largely unexploited. Proteome analysis has become indispensable and complementary to genomic analysis. With access to whole genome sequences from various organisms and with the imminent completion of many more, the SWISS-PROT group at EBI has developed a research-oriented initiative that utilises many of the existing resources and provides comparative analysis of the predicted protein coding sequences of all complete genomes. The two main projects used in this proteome analysis effort, InterPro and CluSTr, give a new perspective on domain structure and function, gene duplication and protein families in different genomes. The proteome analysis pages are accessible at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/proteome/. Questions can be mailed to proteome_help@ebi.ac.uk