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GATE 2019 BT – Question 14

Recombinant DNA Technology and Other Tools in Biotechnology · Computational tools: Bioinformatics resources, databases, sequence analysis, alignment and phylogeny · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which is a database of protein-sequence motifs?

  1. PROSITE
  2. TrEMBL
  3. SWISSPROT
  4. PDB

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Correct answer: (A) PROSITE

Explanation

PROSITE collects protein patterns and profiles associated with families, domains and functional sites, making it the motif resource, A. TrEMBL and Swiss-Prot are protein-sequence collections with different annotation status, and PDB primarily archives experimentally determined macromolecular structures.

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