SUPERFAMILY is a database of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. The SUPERFAMILY annotation is based on a collection of hidden Markov models, which represent structural protein domains at the SCOP superfamily level. A superfamily groups together domains which have an evolutionary relationship. The annotation is produ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPERFAMILY
(soo´pәr-fam″ĭ-le) a taxonomic category sometimes established, subordinate to an order and superior to a family. any of a group of proteins having similarities such as areas of structural homology and believed to descend from the same ancestral gene, such as the superfamily of immunoglobul... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001