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PIR SuperFamily

Abbreviation:PIRSF

General Information

The PIR SuperFamily concept is being used as a guiding principle to provide comprehensive and non-overlapping clustering of UniProtKB sequences into a hierarchical order to reflect their evolutionary relationships.

Homepage https://proteininformationresource.org/pirwww/dbinfo/pirsf.shtml

Countries that developed this resource United States

Created in 1984

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: PIRSF; PIR SuperFamily; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.vssch2; Last edited: June 15, 2021, 1:42 p.m.; Last accessed: Jul 31 2021 1:30 p.m.

Record updated: April 20, 2021, 10:24 a.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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			PIR|http://pir.georgetown.edu|Maintains
			University of Delaware, USA|http://www.udel.edu|Maintains
			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
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Support

General

training

Tutorial (PPT)

Additional Information

Contact

General contact

Tools

No tools defined

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Data Release

Download

ftp://ftp.pir.georgetown.edu/databases/pirsf/

Data Access

advanced search	http://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/peptidematch/index.jsp
Scan	https://proteininformationresource.org/pirwww/search/pirsfscan.shtml
Batch Retrieval	https://proteininformationresource.org/pirwww/search/batch_sf.shtml

Publications

PIRSF: family classification system at the Protein Information Resource.

Wu CH., Nikolskaya A., Huang H., Yeh LS., Natale DA., Vinayaka CR., Hu ZZ., Mazumder R., Kumar S., Kourtesis P., Ledley RS., Suzek BE., Arminski L., Chen Y., Zhang J., Cardenas JL., Chung S., Castro-Alvear J., Dinkov G., Barker WC.,
Nucleic Acids Res. 2004

View Paper (PubMed)

Related Standards

Reporting Guidelines

No guidelines defined

Terminology Artifacts

No semantic standards defined

Models and Formats

FASTA Sequence Format

Identifier Schemas

No identifier schema standards defined

Metrics

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Related Databases

Implementing Policies

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Credit

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Funds

European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement (Government body)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA (Government body)

Maintains

Georgetown University Medical Center , Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA (University)
PIR (Research institute) Lead
University of Delaware, USA (University)
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK (Research institute)

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