Indexing protein sequences with MINOS

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This paper concerns the use of an object-oriented database for the analysis of protein sequences. We describe proteins either by bibliographic information or by prediction function such as Prosite patterns [2, 5]. We propose to use concept lattices-a tool used in information retrieval to build thesauruses-to classify protein sequences. This classification of proteins may help finding sequence alignments, or discussing about them. Conversely, sequence alignments can be used to criticize the structuration of sequences.