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"The SWISS-PROT protein knowledgebase
and its supplement TrEMBL in 2003,"
by Brigitte Boeckmann and 11 others, Nucleic Acids Research, 31(1):
365-70, 1 January 2003.
[Authors'affiliations: Swiss Institute of
Bioinformatics, Geneva; EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute,
Cambbridge, U.K.]
Abstract: "The SWISS-PROT protein
knowledgebase (http://www.expasy.org/sprot/
and http://www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot)
connects amino acid sequences with the current knowledge in the Life Sciences.
Each protein entry provides an interdisciplinary overview of relevant
information by bringing together experimental results, computed features and
sometimes even contradictory conclusions. Detailed expertise that goes beyond
the scope of SWISS-PROT is made available via direct links to specialised
databases. SWISS-PROT provides annotated entries for all species, but
concentrates on the annotation of entries from human (the HPI project) and
other model organisms to ensure the presence of high quality annotation for
representative members of all protein families. Part of the annotation can be
transferred to other family members, as is already done for microbes by the
High-quality Automated and Manual Annotation of microbial Proteomes (HAMAP)
project. Protein families and groups of proteins are regularly reviewed to
keep up with current scientific findings. Complementarily, TrEMBL strives to
comprise all protein sequences that are not yet represented in SWISS-PROT, by
incorporating a perpetually increasing level of mostly automated annotation.
Researchers are welcome to contribute their knowledge to the scientific
community by submitting relevant findings to SWISS-PROT at swiss-prot@expasy.org."
This 2003 report from Nucleic Acids
Research was cited 58 times in current journal articles
indexed by Thomson Scientific during July-August of 2004. During that
two-month period, this was the second-most-cited biology paper published in
the last two years, excluding reviews. Prior to the most recent bimonthly
count, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:
May-June 2004: 40 citations
March-April 2004: 41
January-February 2004: 61
November-December 2003: 12
September-October 2003: 12
July-August 2003: 19
May-June 2003: 8
Total citations to date: 251
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