Access
The database is available for text- and sequence-based searches via a webserver (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro), and for download by anonymous FTP (ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/interpro). Like other EBI databases, it is in the public domain, since its content can be used "by any individual and for any purpose".
Users can also use the signature scanning software, InterProScan, if they have novel sequences that require characterisation. InterProScan is frequently used in genome projects in order to obtain a "first-pass" characterisation of the genome of interest. The current public version of InterProScan (v4.x) is perl-based, however, a new Java-based architecture is under development which will form the core of InterProScan v5.
To cite a particular InterPro article in Wikipedia, use the template of the form {{InterPro|IPRxxxxxx}}, where IPRxxxxxx is an InterPro accession number, for instance IPR000001.
InterPro aims to release data to the public every 8 weeks, typically within a day of the UniProtKB release of the same proteins.
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