If you want to refer to the PROSITE database please cite:
Hulo N., Bairoch A., Bulliard V., Cerutti L., Cuche B., De Castro E., Lachaize C., Langendijk-Genevaux P.S., Sigrist C.J.A. The 20 years of PROSITE.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Nov 14.
PubMed: 18003654[Full text][PDF version]
If you want to refer to the PROSITE methodology please cite:
Sigrist C.J.A., Cerutti L., Hulo N., Gattiker A., Falquet L., Pagni M., Bairoch A., Bucher P. PROSITE: a documented database using patterns and profiles as motif descriptors.
Brief Bioinform. 3:265-274(2002).
PubMed: 12230035[PDF version]
If you want to refer to the stand-alone tool to scan PROSITE please cite:
De Castro E., Sigrist C.J.A., Gattiker A., Bulliard V., Langendijk-Genevaux P.S., Gasteiger E., Bairoch A., Hulo N. ScanProsite: detection of PROSITE signature matches and ProRule-associated
functional and structural residues in proteins.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jul 1;34(Web Server issue):W362-5.
PubMed:16845026[Full text][PDF version]
If you want to refer to ProRule please cite:
Sigrist C.J.A., De Castro E., Langendijk-Genevaux P.S., Le Saux V., Bairoch A., Hulo N. ProRule: a new database containing functional and structural information on PROSITE profiles.
Bioinformatics. 2005 Nov 1;21(21):4060-6. Epub 2005 Aug 9.
PubMed:16091411[Full text][PDF version]