Data growth and its impact on the SCOP database: new developments.

ABSTRACT: The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive ordering of all proteins of known structure, according to their evolutionary and structural relationships. The SCOP hierarchy comprises the following levels: Species, Protein, Family, Superfamily, Fold and Class. While keeping the original classification scheme intact, we have changed the production of SCOP in order to cope with a rapid growth of new structural data and to facilitate the discovery of new protein relationships. We describe ongoing developments and new features implemented in SCOP. A new update protocol supports batch classification of new protein structures by their detected relationships at Family and Superfamily levels in contrast to our previous sequential handling of new structural data by rele

SUBMITTER: Andreeva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2238974 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature