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 http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/dbinfo/pirsf.shtml

Developed in United States

Created in 1984

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains BETA

Subjects BETA

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: PIRSF; PIR SuperFamily; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.vssch2; Last edited: Jan. 15, 2019, 1:50 p.m.; Last accessed: Mar 23 2019 10:48 a.m.

Record updated: Jan. 15, 2019, 1:48 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|http://www.nih.gov|Funds
			Georgetown University Medical Center , Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA|https://gumc.georgetown.edu/|Maintains
			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
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Undefined
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			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|http://www.nih.gov|Funds
			Georgetown University Medical Center , Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA|https://gumc.georgetown.edu/|Maintains
			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
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Funds
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	'organizations' has been modified:
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			Georgetown University, DC, USA|http://gumc.georgetown.edu|Maintains
			PIR|http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/about/sponsor.shtml|Maintains
			University of Delaware, USA|http://www.udel.edu|Maintains
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Undefined
			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)|http://www.sib.swiss/|Maintains
			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|http://www.nih.gov|Funds
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			National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA|http://www.nih.gov|Funds
			Georgetown University Medical Center , Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA|https://gumc.georgetown.edu/|Maintains
			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
			European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement|http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm?pg=documents|Undefined
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			Georgetown University Medical Center , Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA|https://gumc.georgetown.edu/|Maintains
			PIR|http://pir.georgetown.edu|Maintains
			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
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			Georgetown University, DC, USA|http://gumc.georgetown.edu|Maintains
			PIR|http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/about/sponsor.shtml|Maintains
			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)|http://www.sib.swiss/|Maintains

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			FAQ|http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/support/faq.shtml
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Support

General

FAQ	http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/support ...
help	http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/support ...

Additional Information

Contact	General contact
Identifiers.org	MIR:00000017

Tools

BLAST

http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/blast.shtml

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Attribution required
Open Data Commons (ODC) Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0

Data Access

Download	ftp://ftp.pir.georgetown.edu/databases/
search	http://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/
advanced search	http://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/peptidematch/index.jsp
Scan	https://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/pirsfscan.shtml
Batch Retrieval	https://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/batch_sf.shtml
Text search	https://pir.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/textsearch_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

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Metrics

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Funds

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