Swiss-Prot

Swiss-Prot is a curated biological database of protein sequences created in 1986 by Amos Bairoch during his PhD and developed by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the European Bioinformatics Institute . It strives to provide a high level of annotation (such as the description of the function of a protein, its domains structure, post-translational modifications, variants, etc.), a minimal level of redundancy and high level of integration with other databases. As of July 5, 2004, Swiss-Prot (release 44.0) contains 153,871 entries.

Reference

• Bairoch A. Serendipity in bioinformatics, the tribulations of a Swiss bioinformatician through exciting times! Bioinformatics 2000;16:48-64. PDF. A historical account by Bairoch.

External link

• SWISS-PROT Protein Db (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)