ProClass Database Release 5.0 (Sept. 1999)


This release is based on PIR release 61.05 (August 1999), SwissProt
release 38.0 (July 1999) and ProSite release 16.0 (July 1999).
ProClass_Motif subdatabase includes new ProSite family members
identified using our GeneFIND family identification system (Version
5.0, Sept. 1999). For more information, please contact with the 
database's developer Dr. Cathy Wu at wuc@nbrf.georgetown.edu or
go to the ProClass Website at 
http://pir.georgetown.edu/gfserver/proclass.html .

The ProClass database is a non-redundant protein database organized
according to family relationships as defined collectively by ProSite 
patterns and PIR superfamilies. The ProClass database can facilitate
protein family information retrieval, unveil domain and family
relationships, and classify multi-domained proteins, by combining 
global and motif similarities into a single family organization scheme.

This directory includes the following files: 
   
1. PCFam.dat     ProClass Family data file, which gives the detailed 
                 information about each ProClass family along with  
                 links to the corresponding PCSeq entries.
   
2. PCSeq.dat     ProClass Sequence data file, which gives the detailed
                 information about each sequence in ProClass database.
   
3. PCMotif.dat   ProClass Motif data file gives the detailed information
                 about each ProClass Motif description and its membership
                 listing. 

4. PCMotif.seq   ProClass Motif sequence file gives all motif sequences
                 in FASTA format.

5. PCMotif.aln   ProClass Motif alignment file gives motif alignments 
                 generated by using ClustalW program.

6. PCSeq.fasta.Z ProClass Sequences in FASTA format.

7. 0README       This file.