The Full Form of EXPASY is Expert Protein Analysis System.

The ExPASy (the Expert Protein Analysis System) World Wide Web server (http://www.expasy.org), is provided as a service to the life science community by a multidisciplinary team at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). It provides access to a variety of databases and analytical tools dedicated to proteins and proteomics. ExPASy databases include SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL, SWISS-2DPAGE, PROSITE, ENZYME and the SWISS-MODEL repository. Analysis tools are available for specific tasks relevant to proteomics, similarity searches, pattern and profile searches, post-translational modification prediction, topology prediction, primary, secondary and tertiary structure analysis and sequence alignment. These databases and tools are tightly interlinked: a special emphasis is placed on integration of database entries with related resources developed at the SIB and elsewhere, and the proteomics tools have been designed to read the annotations in SWISS-PROT in order to enhance their predictions. ExPASy started to operate in 1993, as the first WWW server in the field of life sciences. In addition to the main site in Switzerland, seven mirror sites in different continents currently serve the user community.

The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB, http://www.isb-sib.ch) is an academic not-for-profit foundation whose mission is to promote research, the development of databanks and computer technologies, teaching and service activities in the field of bioinformatics. One of the SIB’s windows to the world is the ExPASy server, which focuses on proteins and proteomics, and provides access to a variety of databases and analysis tools. One of the major assets of ExPASy is the high degree of integration and interconnectivity that it establishes between all the available databases and services. Rather than just making each service accessible in an isolated manner, we put at the disposal of the users different expert views of the complex world of biological data and knowledge.