Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains
A hierarchical classification combining automated sequence and structure analysis with manual curation to organize protein domains.
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Cite ECOD
Schaeffer RD, Medvedev KE, Andreeva A, Chuguransky SR, Pinto BL, Zhang J, Cong Q, Bateman A, Grishin NV (2025)
ECOD: integrating classifications of protein domains from experimental and predicted structures
Nucleic Acids Research
doi:10.1093/nar/gkae1029 →Schaeffer RD, Liao Y, Cheng H, Grishin NV (2017)
ECOD: new developments in the evolutionary classification of domains
Nucleic Acids Research
doi:10.1093/nar/gkw1137 →Cheng H, Schaeffer RD, Liao Y, Kinch LN, Pei J, Shi S, Kim BH, Grishin NV (2014)
ECOD: An evolutionary classification of protein domains
PLoS Comput Biol 10(12): e1003926
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003926 →