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PRINTS RELEASE NOTES
1.0 Current contents
Release 39.0 of PRINTS contains 1950 entries, encoding 11,625 individual
motifs. Overall, the database is still relatively small, largely
because the detailed annotation of fingerprints is so time-consuming.
Nevertheless, the additional, unique information contained in PRINTS
makes this database a useful adjunct to PROSITE, Pfam, Blocks, etc..
PRINTS is released in major and minor versions: minor releases reflect
updates, bringing the contents in line with the current version of the
source database(s) (formerly, PRINTS was derived from OWL, but since
version 23.1, the database has changed to SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL sources);
major releases denote the addition of new material to the resource. We
endeavour to make major releases available quarterly.
1.1 Database growth
The database has gathered momentum since October 1993, from which time it
has shown a >10-fold increase in size. We used to maintain a steady growth
by adding around 50 new entries with each release, but this has proved
impossible in recent years. The database growth since its first release is
summarised below:
DATABASE DATE NO.OF DATABASE TOTAL NO.
VERSION ENTRIES OF MOTIFS
1.0 18.10.1991 29 116
1.1 16.10.1992 28 110
2.0 13.03.1993 59 279
2.1 16.04.1993 59 279
3.0 22.07.1993 104 486
4.0 29.10.1993 150 702
5.0 20.04.1994 200 951
6.0 22.07.1994 250 1211
7.0 22.11.1994 300 1433
8.0 22.03.1995 350 1686
9.0 22.07.1995 400 1942
9.1 14.11.1995 400 1942
10.0 21.12.1995 450 2227
11.0 08.04.1996 500 2559
12.0 21.06.1996 550 2875
12.1 22.08.1996 550 2874
13.0 29.09.1996 600 3197
13.a 03.11.1996 614 3280
14.0 16.12.1996 650 3504
15.0 15.04.1997 700 3838
16.0 16.06.1997 750 4136
17.0 13.09.1997 800 4460
18.0 31.03.1998 865 4892
19.0 20.07.1998 925 5334
20.0 25.10.1998 990 5701
21.0 03.01.1999 1050 6142
22.0 23.03.1999 1100 6510
23.0 30.06.1999 1160 6938
23.1 15.08.1999 1159 6935
24.0 01.10.1999 1210 7241
25.0 07.01.2000 1260 7559
26.0 29.03.2000 1310 7897
27.0 31.05.2000 1360 8244
28.0 25.09.2000 1410 8550
29.0 01.01.2001 1460 8880
30.0 30.03.2001 1500 9136
31.0 30.06.2001 1550 9531
32.0 23.09.2001 1600 9800
33.0 01.01.2002 1650 10085
34.0 01.04.2002 1700 10342
35.0 14.07.2002 1750 10626
36.0 11.04.2003 1800 10931
37.0 06.06.2003 1850 11170
38.0 16.06.2005 1900 11435
38.1 25.05.2007 1904 11451
39.0 02.02.2009 1950 11625
1.2 Future directions
We have now integrated PRINTS, PROSITE, profiles and Pfam within the
framework of a single protein family annotation resource; the annotation
server is based at the EBI, while the pattern databases continue to be
managed from their respective host institutions. This collaborative
European initiative, known as InterPro, aims to reduce duplication of
effort by streamlining the current annotation bottleneck.
InterPro is accessible at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/
1.3 Citing PRINTS
The most recent NAR publication is:
PRINTS and its automatic supplement, prePRINTS.
Attwood, T.K., Bradley, P., Flower, D.R., Gaulton, A.,
Maudling, N., Mitchell, A., Moulton, G., Nordle, A.,
Paine, K., Taylor, P., Uddin, A. and Zygouri, C.
Nucleic Acids Research, 31(1), 400-402 (2003).
References to other PRINTS-related publications can be found at:
http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/index/biblio.html
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