Superfamily
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The term superfamily is used to describe several different concepts in different scientific fields:
- Superfamily (zoology) and Superfamily (biology)Taxonomic rankIn biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...
: a level of biological classification; redirects to Taxonomic rankTaxonomic rankIn biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories... - Superfamily (linguistics)MacrofamilyIn historical linguistics, a macro-family, also called a superfamily or phylum, is defined as a proposed genetic relationship grouping together language families in a larger scale clasification.However, Campbell regards this term as superfluous, preferring language family for those clasifications...
: in comparative linguistics, another term for "macrofamilyMacrofamilyIn historical linguistics, a macro-family, also called a superfamily or phylum, is defined as a proposed genetic relationship grouping together language families in a larger scale clasification.However, Campbell regards this term as superfluous, preferring language family for those clasifications...
" - Font superfamilyFont superfamilyIn typography, a font superfamily or typeface superfamily is a font family containingfonts that fall into multiple classifications.Based on an identical character shape, class-specific features such as serifs are added...
is used to describe a large typographic family containing fonts from several classifications. - Superfamily (molecular biology)Protein familyA protein family is a group of evolutionarily-related proteins, and is often nearly synonymous with gene family. The term protein family should not be confused with family as it is used in taxonomy....
: in molecular biology, a large group of related proteins or other molecules.- Ras superfamilyRas superfamilyThe Ras superfamily is a protein superfamily of small GTPases, which are all related, to a degree, to the Ras protein subfamily .There are more than a hundred proteins in the Ras superfamily...
, a superfamily of cellular proteins.
- Ras superfamily
- Superfamily (band)Superfamily (band)Superfamily is a Norwegian pop rock band from Moss, Norway. The band is composed of Steven Ray Wilson , Kim Granholt , Martin Steffensen , and Richard Lorentz . Anders Nielsen, Terje Krumins and Håkon Moe provide backing vocals as "choirboys".Superfamily debuted with an EP in 2004, called Champagne...
: a Norwegian pop band - SUPERFAMILYSUPERFAMILYSUPERFAMILY 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....
: database of annotation for all proteins