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

domain family and domain databases protein sequence

Links

Homepage

Publications

https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:7971946

https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:7937065

https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:2330366

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

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

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

Example Local Unique Identifier

PR00001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

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

Example CURIE

prints:PR00001

Contact

Teresa K. Attwood   0000-0003-2409-4235

Identifier Space Owner

University of Manchester

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries with 4 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. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. 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.