Databases for Selected Enzyme Classes

In addition to the above mentioned databases that try to cover the entire world of enzymes, there are a number of more topical databases focusing on particular enzyme families. The MEROPS database, maintained at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, provides a catalog and a structure-based classification scheme for all proteolytic enzymes 58. In addition to the classification, the database also provides a digest of published information on the peptidases as well as dadograms and multiple sequence alignments of the peptidase families. 

The ESTHER database, maintained at the INRA-ENSAM in Montpellier, follows a similar concept but focuses on the a/fi fold family of esterases/lipases 59.  

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