Hi J, Yes, as I tried to explain in my previous message, "outside sources" = "other databases":
No -- if I understand correctly, the CDD has sequence alignments imported from outside sources (other databases) as well as human-curated alignments.
I came to this conclusion by looking at the paper that describes CDD. You may want to take a look at this paper and/or information at the CDD website: <http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/41/D1/D348> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml> Best, Elaine ---------- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On May 13, 2014, at 11:22 AM, ce <allderann@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for superimposing instruction. Can You clarify the meaning of the outside sources ? Kind regards, J.