Welcome to SCOP: Structural Classification of Proteins. 1.67 release (February 2005).
24037 PDB Entries. 1 Literature Reference.
65122 Domains.
(excluding nucleic acids and theoretical models).
Folds, superfamilies, and families statistics here.
New folds
superfamilies
families.
List of obsolete entries and their replacements.
Authors. Alexey G. Murzin,
John-Marc Chandonia,
Antonina Andreeva,
Dave Howorth,
Loredana Lo Conte,
Bartlett G. Ailey,
Steven E. Brenner,
Tim J. P. Hubbard, and Cyrus Chothia.
scop@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Reference:
Murzin A. G., Brenner S. E., Hubbard T., Chothia C. (1995).
SCOP: a structural classification
of proteins database for the investigation of sequences and
structures. J. Mol. Biol. 247, 536-540. [PDF]
Recent changes are described in: Lo Conte L., Brenner S. E., Hubbard T.J.P., Chothia C., Murzin A. (2002). SCOP database in 2002: refinements accommodate
structural genomics. Nucl. Acid Res. 30(1), 264-267. [PDF] and
Andreeva A., Howorth D., Brenner S.E., Hubbard T.J.P., Chothia C.,
Murzin A.G. (2004). SCOP database in 2004: refinements integrate structure
and sequence family data.
Nucl. Acid Res. 32:D226-D229. [PDF].
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