Expasy
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ExPASy
)
Expasy is an online
extensible and integrative portal which provides access to over 160 databases and software tools and supports a range of life science and clinical research areas, from genomics, proteomics and structural biology, to evolution and phylogeny, systems biology and medical chemistry
. The individual resources (databases, web-based and downloadable software tools) are hosted in a decentralized way by different groups of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and partner institutions.
Search engine
Queries of Expasy allow:
- parallel searches SIB databases through a single search
- aggregated search results from the complete set of >160 resources accessible from the portal.[1]
Expasy provides up-to-date information from the most recent release of each resources.
The terms used in Expasy are based on the EDAM comprehensive ontology.[2]
History
Expasy was created in August 1993. Originally, it was called ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) and acted as a
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, and its computer annotated supplement, UniProtKB/TrEMBL.[4]
ExPASy was the
life sciences and among the first 150 websites in the world. As of 5 April 2007[update], ExPASy had been consulted 1 billion times since its installation on 1 August 1993.[5]
In June 2011, it became the SIB ExPASy Bioinformatics Resources Portal: a diverse catalogue of bioinformatics resources developed by SIB Groups.[6] The current version of Expasy was released in October 2020.[7][8]
Notes and references
- ^ "SIB Resources". sib.swiss. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- PMID 23479348.
- PMID 12824418.
- ^ "UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot - SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Expasy". www.expasy.org. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
- ^ ExPASy: SIB Bioinformatics Resource Portal
- PMID 22661580.
- PMID 33849055.
- ^ "Discover the new Expasy.org, the Swiss Bioinformatics Resource Portal". sib.swiss. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
