InterPro provides an integrated view of the commonly used signature databases, and has an intuitive interface for text- and sequence-based searches.

Bioinformatics infrastructural activities are crucial to modern biological research. Complete and up-to-date databases of biological knowledge are vital for the increasingly information-dependent biological and biotechnological research. Secondary protein databases on functional sites and domains like PROSITE, PRINTS, SMART, Pfam, ProDom, etc. are vital resources for identifying distant relationships in novel sequences, and hence for predicting protein function and structure. Unfortunately, these signature databases do not share the same formats and nomenclature, and each database has is own strengths and weaknesses.
To capitalise on these, the following partners: EBI, SIB, University of Manchester, Sanger Institute, GENE-IT, CNRS/INRA, LION bioscience AG and University of Bergen unified PROSITE, PRINTS, ProDom and Pfam into InterPro (Integrated resource of Protein Families, Domains and Sites). The latest databases to join the project were SMART, and more recently, TIGRFAMs.