Roxanne A. Yamashita

TL;DR: NCBI’s Conserved Domain Database (CDD) is a resource for the annotation of protein sequences with the location of conserved domain footprints, and functional sites inferred from these footprints.

TL;DR: NCBI's CDD, the Conserved Domain Database, enters its 15th year as a public resource for the annotation of proteins with the location of conserved domain footprints and aims at increasing coverage and providing finer-grained classifications of common protein domains.

TL;DR: NCBI's Conserved Domain Database (CDD) aims at annotating biomolecular sequences with the location of evolutionarily conserved protein domain footprints, and functional sites inferred from such footprints.

TL;DR: As NLM's Conserved Domain Database (CDD) enters its 20th year of operations as a publicly available resource, curation staff continues to develop hierarchical classifications of widely distributed protein domain families, and to record conserved sites associated with molecular function, so that they can be mapped onto user queries in support of hypothesis-driven biomolecular research.

TL;DR: The progress of the curation effort and associated improvements in the functionality of the CDD information retrieval system are reported on.