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* PROSITE protein families and domains database *
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FTP site:

   Organization   SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
   Address        FTP: https://ftp.expasy.org
   Directory      /databases/prosite




This directory contains the following subdirectories:


+-prosite--+                     Latest PROSITE release; this is the same version as the one that can be
           |                     queried through https://prosite.expasy.org.
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           |
           |
           |--old_releases       Gzipped 'tar' (archive) files of previous releases of PROSITE.
           |                     Each release is stored in a file with the name: prositeXX_X.tar.gz
           |                     where "XX_X" is the release number. Each release file contains
           |                     prosite.aux (from release 2024_03), prosite.dat, prodoc.dat and
           |                     prorule.dat (from release 20.0).
           |
           |--ps_scan            Perl program used to scan one or several patterns, rules and/or profiles
           |                     from PROSITE against one or several protein sequences. Requires 'pfscan'
           |                     and psa2msa from the pftools package.
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           |


Directory /databases/prosite

File name                           Description
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README                              This document
README.license                      URL to PROSITE license conditions document
README.pftools                      URL to the pftools (collection of programs supporting the generalized
                                    profile format and search method of PROSITE)
README.prosuser                     URL to PROSITE user manual document
_COPYRIGHT_NOTICE_                  PROSITE copyright notice
evaluator.dat                       Miniprofiles data file (all profiles used to evaluate pattern matches)
jourlist.txt                        List of abbreviations for journals cited in prosite.doc
profile.txt                         Syntax for PROSITE profiles
prorule.dat                         PROSITE ProRule file (all rules)
prosite.aux                         PROSITE auxiliary data (recomputed at each release based on PROSITE
                                    motif matches in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot - there are no records for
                                    motifs with "CC   /SKIP-FLAG=TRUE;")
prosite.dat                         PROSITE motifs (all patterns and profiles)
prosite.doc                         PROSITE documentation file (all documentation entries)
prosite.lis                         List of documentation entries
prosite_alignments.tar.gz           Alignment of all UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot true positive hits for each
                                    PROSITE motif
prosite_alignments_for_logos.tar.gz Same as prosite_alignments.tar.gz but without any insertion.
ps_reldt.txt                        Current PROSITE release number and date
psdelac.txt                         List of all accession numbers that have been deleted from
                                    prosite.dat or prosite.doc
sequence_logos.tar.gz               Logo for each alignment present in prosite_alignments.tar.gz
unirule.pdf                         Syntax for the rules in ProRule


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  (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, see https://prosite.expasy.org/prosite_license.html
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