                 ***********************************************
                 *                                             *
                 *  PRINTS PROTEIN MOTIF FINGERPRINT DATABASE  *
                 *                                             *
                 *     PRINTS is a public domain database,     *
                 *    currently maintained exclusively at      *
                 *       the University of Manchester.         *
                 *                                             *
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                            The Bioinformatics Unit
                         School of Biological Sciences
                         The University of Manchester, 
                             Manchester M13 9PT, UK 
                           attwood@bioinf.man.ac.uk
                     http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/

 	      Attwood, T.K., Bradley, P., Flower, D.R., Gaulton, A.,
	      Maudling, N., Mitchell, A., Moulton, G., Nordle, A.,
	      Paine, K., Taylor, P., Uddin, A. and Zygouri, C. (2003)
              PRINTS and its automatic supplement, prePRINTS.
              Nucleic Acids Research, 31(1), 400-402.



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# Directory Contents
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Most of the files in this directory take the form,
prints{current version}.{file type}.gz

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File Type | Description
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dat       | Main database
fasta     | List of sequences found within PRINTS
lis       | List of fingerprints in the current PRINTS release
nam       | Database reference and contact details
vsn       | Version information
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newpr.lis       New fingerprints in the latest database release
smite           Directory containing smite indexes
                http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/dbbrowser/PRINTS/smiteman.html

prints{previous version}  Directory contains previous release of PRINTS

