{"id":8,"date":"2019-08-30T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:02:04","slug":"how-to-search-interpro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/how-to-search-interpro\/","title":{"rendered":"How to search InterPro?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can search&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/interpro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">InterPro<\/a>&nbsp;(Figure 11) using either an&nbsp;amino acid&nbsp;or nucleotide sequence, a text search (<em>e.g.,<\/em>&nbsp;with a word or short phrase, or a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uniprot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UniProt<\/a>&nbsp;or InterPro&nbsp;identifier), a&nbsp;domain&nbsp;architecture, or browse through the InterPro member databases and\/or entry types. The following sections will take you through these options.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-1024x670.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-1536x1006.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2026\/02\/ifs11-ok-2048x1341.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Figure 11<\/strong> Search fields on the InterPro home page, showing text search field&nbsp;<strong>(A)<\/strong>&nbsp;and the sequence search&nbsp;<strong>(B)<\/strong>&nbsp;options, including &#8216;Advanced options&#8217;, where you can change the sequence type (protein\/amino acids is the default) and limit your search to those member databases or sequence features of interest. Selecting the browse tab in the top menu&nbsp;<strong>(C)<\/strong>&nbsp;allows access to a browse search, (e.g.,&nbsp;search for member database signature, InterPro entry type). You can also search for a particular domain architecture&nbsp;<strong>(D)<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can search&nbsp;InterPro&nbsp;(Figure 11) using either an&nbsp;amino acid&nbsp;or nucleotide sequence, a text search (e.g.,&nbsp;with a word or short phrase, or a&nbsp;UniProt&nbsp;or InterPro&nbsp;identifier), a&nbsp;domain&nbsp;architecture, or browse through the InterPro member databases and\/or entry types. The following sections will take you through these options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/interpro-functional-and-structural-analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}