Abstract
The SWISS-PROT database, maintained collaboratively by the EMBL Data Library and Amos Bairoch (University of Geneva), is a collection of amino acid sequences from the Protein Identification Resource collection (PIR, Washington, D.C.) along with translations of coding sequences in the Nucleotide Sequence Database. Its releases are coordinated with those of the Nucleotide Sequence Database such that they include translations of the newest data. The EPD is important not only for the scientific information it contains but also as a prototype for future. The computer-readable version of the form is distributed with all releases of the EMBL and GenBank databases and can also be obtained via computer network. The main way of distributing copies of the entire database continues to be by mailing magnetic tapes. Much of this distribution is done by the Data Library, and some is done by secondary distributors, such as groups that supply the data along with sequence analysis software.
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