Document PSD-CODATA-0703
                         PIR Installation Document
                     For the CODATA Format Release of
 
             P R O T E I N  S E Q U E N C E  D A T A B A S E
                             of PIR-International

                       Release 80.00, December 31, 2004
                     283416 sequences, 96216763 residues

                     Protein Information Resource (PIR)*
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  Japan International Protein           Munich Information Center for
  Information Database (JIPID)             Protein Sequences (MIPS)
        Amakubo 1-16-1          GSF-Forschungszentrum f. Umwelt und Gesundheit
   Tsukuba 305-0005, Japan            am Max-Planck-Instut f. Biochemie
                                 Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, FRG


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  PIR is partially supported by National Library of Medicine grant LM05798

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                       * PIR-PSD Final Release *
                       =========================

  Release 80.00 is the final release for the PIR-International Protein
  Sequence Database (PIR-PSD). In 2002, PIR joined EBI and SIB to form
  the UniProt consortium. PIR-PSD sequences and annotations have been
  integrated into UniProt Knowledgebase. Bi-directional cross-references
  between UniProt (UniProt Knowledgebase and/or UniParc) and PIR-PSD are
  established to allow easy tracking of former PIR-PSD entries. PIR-PSD
  unique sequences, reference citations, and experimentally-verified data
  can now be found in the relevant UniProt records. This final version of
  the database will be accessible from the PIR web site and downloadable
  from the FTP site.


  
  1.0 CODATA Format
  =================
  This document describes the quarterly release of the PIR-International 
  Protein Sequence Database in CODATA format formerly distributed on magnetic
  media for non-VAX/VMS systems in fixed-length 80-byte records.
  
  2.0 In this Release
  ===================
  Release 80.00 of the Protein Sequence Database contains 283,416 entries
  and 96,216,763 residues. The Release is separated into four datasets.
  Sectione 1, Fully Classified Entries, contains 20,685 entries and
  8,103,841 residues. Section 2, Verified and Classified Entries, contains
  262,300 entries and 88,045,621 residues. Section 3, Unverified Entries,
  contains 24 entries and 74 residues. Section 4, Unencoded or
  Untranslated Entries, contains 407 tries and 67,227 residues. A total
  of 36,403 superfamilies includinding 5,700 fully curated ones are represented
  in sections 1 and 2.

  3.0 Features in this Release
  ============================
  Starting with Release 64.00 of the Protein Sequence Database, PIR-International
  is including status information in protein titles, function and complex records.
  These new status identifiers are as follows.
  
  [validated] = in a title or function block means that one of the references
  in the entry contains some experimental evidence for the protein's function.
  
  [similarity] = in a title or function block means that the name and/or 
  function has been assigned by end to end sequence similarity with other 
  entries that have that same name or function.
  
  [imported] = in a title means that the name was imported with the sequence from
  GenBank, EMBL DDBJ, or other source and has not been verified by PIR.
  
  Complete coverage of the entire database will not be obtained for several
  releases.  The absence of a status identifier at this time should NOT be taken
  as an indication that the information in the title or function blocks is not
  correct or has not been evaluated by PIR staff.