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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Conserved Domain Database (CDD) version 3.11 is now available with 596 new or updated NCBI-curated and 49,641 total domain models. The new version now contains the most recent Pfam release 27.

Updates to the Conserved Domain Database include:

• Position-specific score matrices (PSSMs) have been recomputed for many models in CDD, and frequency tables have been added to the PSSMs;

• The search databases distributed as part of this release can now be used with the more recent versions of RPS-BLAST (BLAST release 2.2.28 and up) using composition-based scoring. This abolishes the need to mask out compositionally biased regions in query sequences;

• Domain annotation displays in CD-Search, BATCH CD-Search, and other services now all use a uniform display style. A new display option in CD-Search and BATCH CD-Search provides “standard” results, in addition to “concise” and “full” results. “Standard” results will provide, for each region on the query sequence, the best0-scoring domain model (if any) from each of CDD’s database providers (Pfam, SMART, COG, TIGRFAMs, Protein Clusters, and the NCBI in-house curation project), but will suppress redundancy from within a single provider's results list.

You can access CDD at the Conserved Domains homepage and find updated content on the CDD FTP site.

Reference:

NCBI Website