Title
Data Growth And Its Impact On The Scop Database: New Developments
Abstract
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a comprehensive ordering of all proteins of known structure, according to their evolutionary and structural relationships. The SCOP hierarchy comprises the following levels: Species, Protein, Family, Superfamily, Fold and Class. While keeping the original classification scheme intact, we have changed the production of SCOP in order to cope with a rapid growth of new structural data and to facilitate the discovery of new protein relationships. We describe ongoing developments and new features implemented in SCOP. A new update protocol supports batch classification of new protein structures by their detected relationships at Family and Superfamily levels in contrast to our previous sequential handling of new structural data by release date. We introduce pre-SCOP, a preview of the SCOP developmental version that enables earlier access to the information on new relationships. We also discuss the impact of worldwide Structural Genomics initiatives, which are producing new protein structures at an increasing rate, on the rates of discovery and growth of protein families and superfamilies. SCOP can be accessed at http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/nar/gkm993
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
genomics,structural genomics,protein structure,internet,protein family,structured data,proteins,structural classification of proteins
Protein family,Structural genomics,SUPERFAMILY,Biology,Release date,Classification scheme,Genomics,Bioinformatics,Computational biology,Genetics,Structural Classification of Proteins database,Protein structure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
Database issue
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
230
13.55
11
Authors
7
Search Limit
100230
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonina Andreeva154859.88
Dave Howorth251455.30
John-Marc Chandonia358356.85
Steven E Brenner41679308.17
Tim J. P. Hubbard51898332.55
Cyrus Chothia61325235.86
Alexey G Murzin71097208.55