National Biomedical Research Foundation NBRF

PIR is produced by the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) [35]. 

Protein information resource (Barker et al., 1999) was established in 1984 by the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) as a successor to the original NBRF Protein Sequence Database, developed over 20 years by the late Margaret O. Dayhoff and published as the Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure (Dayhoff et al., 1965 Dayhoff, 1979). Since 1988 the database has been maintained by PIR-Intemational, a collaboration between the NBRF, the Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS), and the Japan International Protein Information Database (JIPID). 

The PIR Protein Sequence Database (Barker et al., 2001 Wu et al., 2002) developed at the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) has been maintained by PIR-International Protein Sequence Database (PSD), which is the largest publicly distributed and freely available protein sequence database. The consortium includes PIR at the NBRF, MIPS, and JIPID. PIR-International provides online access at http //pir.georgetown.edu to numerous sequence and auxiliary databases. These include PSD (annotated and classified protein sequences), PATCHX (sequences not yet in PSD), ARCHIVE (sequences as originally reported... 

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