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EXProt (database for EXPerimentally verified Protein functions) is a new non-redundant database containing protein sequences for which the function has been experimentally verified. It is a selection of 3976 entries from the Prokaryotes section of the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database, Release 66, and 375 entries from the Pseudomonas Community Annotation Project (PseudoCAP). The entries in EXProt all have a unique ID number and provide information about the organism, protein sequence, functional annotation, link to entry in original database, and if known, gene name and link to references in PubMed/Medline. The EXProt web page (http://www.cmbi.nl/EXProt) provides further details of the database and a link to a BLAST search (blastp & blastx) of the database. The EXProt entries are indexed in SRS (http://www.cmbi.nl/srs/) and can be searched by means of keywords. Authors can be reached by email (exprot(cmbi.kun.nl).

EXProt is a non-redundant protein database containing a selection of entries from genome annotation projects and public databases, aimed at including only proteins with an experimentally verified function. In EXProt release 2.0 we have collected entries from the Pseudomonas aeruginosa community annotation project (PseudoCAP), the Escherichia coli genome and proteome database (GenProtEC) and the translated coding sequences from the Prokaryotes division of EMBL nucleotide sequence database, which are described as having an experimentally verified function. Each entry in EXProt has a unique ID number and contains information about the species, amino acid sequence, functional annotation and, in most cases, links to references in MEDLINE/PubMed and to the entry in the original database. EXProt is indexed in SRS at CMBI (http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/srs/) and can be searched with BLAST and FASTA through the EXProt web page (http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/EXProt/).