SMART | |
Description: | Identification scheme for protein domains. |
Scope: | Protein domains |
Organism: | all |
Center: | European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
Pmid: | 18978020 |
Url: | http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de |
License: | Free to academics, but not commercial users |
Curation: | Yes |
Version: | 7 |
Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool (SMART) is a biological database that is used in the identification and analysis of protein domains within protein sequences.[1] [2] SMART uses profile-hidden Markov models built from multiple sequence alignments to detect protein domains in protein sequences. The most recent release of SMART contains 1,204 domain models.[3] Data from SMART was used in creating the Conserved Domain Database collection and is also distributed as part of the InterPro database.[4] The database is hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg.