PRINTS is a compendium of protein fingerprints. A fingerprint is a group of conserved motifs used to characterise a protein family; its diagnostic power is refined by iterative scanning of a SWISS-PROT/TrEMBL composite. Usually the motifs do not overlap, but are separated along a sequence, though they may be contiguous in 3D-space. Fingerprints can encode protein folds and functionalities more flexibly and powerfully than can single motifs, full diagnostic potency deriving from the mutual context provided by motif neighbours.

Prefix

prints

Alternative Prefixes

sprint

Keywords

biology domain protein structural biology

Links

Homepage

Contact

Teresa K. Attwood   0000-0003-2409-4235

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in PRINTS compendium of protein fingerprints should match this regular expression:
^PR\d{5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

PR00001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from PRINTS compendium of protein fingerprints should match this regular expression:
^prints:PR\d{5}$

Example CURIE

prints:PR00001

Publications

• 2012 The PRINTS database: a fine-grained protein sequence annotation and analysis resource--its status in 2012
• 2003 PRINTS and its automatic supplement, prePRINTS
• 1999 FingerPRINTScan: intelligent searching of the PRINTS motif database
• 2000 PRINTS-S: the database formerly known as PRINTS

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier PR00001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for PRINTS compendium of protein fingerprints. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.