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PIR-NREF Database
Non-Redundant REFerence Protein Sequence Database
lComprehensiveness: PIR-PSD, Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL,
RefSeq, GenPept, PDB
lTimeliness: Biweekly Updates (~ 1,000,000
Sequences)
lNon-Redundancy: by Sequence Identity & Taxonomy
(Species)
lSource Attribution: Protein IDs and Names from Underlying Databases, Sequence, Taxonomy,
Bibliography
lRelated Sequences: Identical Sequences from
Different Species, Complete Substring, >=95% Sequence
Identity
Applications
lProtein
Identification: Full-Scale or Species-Based Sequence Analysis
and Text Search
lDetection of
Annotation Errors
lDevelopment of
Protein Name Ontology
FTP Distribution: XML and FASTA Formats