All were explored to examine the human and mouse complete genomic sequences as well as to obtain in addition the known murine cathepsins.
The Ensembl databank system (Hubbard et al., 2005) http://www.ensembl.org/index.html provided human and mouse genome data, both finished and draft sequences.
Extensive screening of the plasmodia genomes relied on:
PlasmoDB (release 5.3; http://plasmodb.org/plasmo/ ) provided the list of known plasmodial CA/C1 peptidases (e.g. falcipains).
An important resource to recommend is the mammalian degradome database (Wu et al. 2003; http://degradome.uniovi.es as all of the mouse and human cysteine protease are collected and listed here.