What is the history of the InterPro project, who established it and when?
The InterPro database was established in 1999 when the InterPro Consortium was formed between the SWISS-PROT group at EBI and SIB, and the founding member databases Prints, PROSITE, Pfam and ProDom. The first release was later that year. There are several publications on InterPro, please see: R.Apweiler, T.K.Attwood, A.Bairoch, A.Bateman, E.Birney, M.Biswas, P.Bucher, L.Cerutti, F.Corpet, M.D.R.Croning, R.Durbin, L.Falquet, W.Fleischmann, J.Gouzy, H.Hermjakob, N.Hulo, I.Jonassen, D.Kahn, A.Kanapin, Y.Karavidopoulou, R.Lopez, B.Marx, N.J.Mulder, T.M.Oinn, M.Pagni, F.Servant, C.J.A.Sigrist, E.M.Zdobnov. The InterPro database, an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites. Nucleic Acids Research vol 29(1):37-40 (2001). and Mulder N.J., Apweiler R., Attwood T.K., Bairoch A., Bateman A., Binns D., Biswas M., Bradley P., Bork P., Bucher P., Copley R., Courcelle E., Durbin R., Falquet L., Fleischmann W., Gouzy J., Griffith-Jones S., Haft D., Hermjakob
