Expasy
Expert Protein-Analysis System
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Queries of Expasy allow:
- parallel searches SIB databases through a single search
- aggregated search results from the complete set of >160 resources accessible from the portal.
Expasy provides up-to-date information from the most recent release of each resources.
The terms used in Expasy are based on the EDAM comprehensive ontology.
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History
Expasy was created in August 1993. Originally, it was called ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) and acted as a proteomics server to analyze protein sequences and structures and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-D Page electrophoresis). Among others, ExPASy hosted the protein sequence knowledge base, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, and its computer annotated supplement, UniProtKB/TrEMBL.
ExPASy was the first website of the life sciences and among the first 150 websites in the world. As of 5 April 2007, ExPASy had been consulted 1 billion times since its installation on 1 August 1993.
In June 2011, it became the SIB ExPASy Bioinformatics Resources Portal: a diverse catalogue of bioinformatics resources developed by SIB Groups. The current version of Expasy was released in October 2020.