Motif annotation
The motifs were identified using the Expasy ScanProsite (50) API
(Application Programming Interface) with the help of a Python
script. ScanProsite tool takes into account the ProRules which focuses
on extreme similarity at only a few biologically significant sites of
well-chosen residues i.e motifs or signatures and also defines the
position of these structurally and functionally crucial amino acids. The
rules are further used internally, by the Swiss-Prot for annotation of
protein query sequences. The motif information for each protein was
collected in the form of ScanProsite IDs, motif name and pattern.