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. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D200-D203.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1129. Epub 2016 Nov 29.

CDD/SPARCLE: functional classification of proteins via subfamily domain architectures

Aron Marchler-Bauer  1 , Yu Bo  2 , Lianyi Han  2 , Jane He  2 , Christopher J Lanczycki  2 , Shennan Lu  2 , Farideh Chitsaz  2 , Myra K Derbyshire  2 , Renata C Geer  2 , Noreen R Gonzales  2 , Marc Gwadz  2 , David I Hurwitz  2 , Fu Lu  2 , Gabriele H Marchler  2 , James S Song  2 , Narmada Thanki  2 , Zhouxi Wang  2 , Roxanne A Yamashita  2 , Dachuan Zhang  2 , Chanjuan Zheng  2 , Lewis Y Geer  2 , Stephen H Bryant  2
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CDD/SPARCLE: functional classification of proteins via subfamily domain architectures

Aron Marchler-Bauer et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

NCBI's Conserved Domain Database (CDD) aims at annotating biomolecular sequences with the location of evolutionarily conserved protein domain footprints, and functional sites inferred from such footprints. An archive of pre-computed domain annotation is maintained for proteins tracked by NCBI's Entrez database, and live search services are offered as well. CDD curation staff supplements a comprehensive collection of protein domain and protein family models, which have been imported from external providers, with representations of selected domain families that are curated in-house and organized into hierarchical classifications of functionally distinct families and sub-families. CDD also supports comparative analyses of protein families via conserved domain architectures, and a recent curation effort focuses on providing functional characterizations of distinct subfamily architectures using SPARCLE: Subfamily Protein Architecture Labeling Engine. CDD can be accessed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
CD-Search reporting pre-computed domain annotation for the protein with GenBank accession KUG45846, a hypothetical protein from Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. Fraxini. The section circled in red provides the functional label that has been assigned to the subfamily domain architecture characterized by the string ‘cd00714 cd05008 cd05009’, which is shared by over 70 000 sequences in Entrez/protein.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Subfamily domain architecture summary page. The summary pages include a browser that provides options for retrieving sub-sets of the sequences sharing the same subfamily architecture, such as those from particular sources, a particular organism, or those that are linked to papers in PubMed.
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