Submissions tagged with protein
(10 documents)
Curation at the NCBI: Genomes, Genes, & Sequence Standards
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides curation support for many genomes, and disseminates information in several resources including Entrez Gene, reference sequences (R…
Received 26 May 2009 16:13 UTC; Posted 27 May 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Reactome – a knowledgebase of human biological pathways
Reactome (http://www.reactome.org) is an expert-authored, peer-reviewed knowledgebase of human reactions and pathways that functions as a data mining resource and electron…
Received 29 April 2009 09:05 UTC; Posted 03 May 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Genetics & Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
The Eukaryotic Linear Motif Resource (ELM): Regulatory Sites in Proteins
Linear motifs are short and evolutionarily variable sequence patterns associated with particular functions often involving post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, acetylation, gl…
Received 23 April 2009 10:26 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Worm Annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB)
The nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, was the first multicellular organism to be sequenced. Its genome was published in 1998, providing an impetus for gene and protein annotation. Recently, ...
Received 23 April 2009 11:47 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Xenopus and Zebrafish Annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB)
The African clawed frog Xenopus laevis and the zebrafish Danio rerio have both proved to be good model organisms for studying early vertebrate cellular and developmental biology. More recently, the…
Received 23 April 2009 10:30 UTC; Posted 23 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Capturing Protein Sequence Data: UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) submissions and Journal Scanning
Most sequences in UniprotKB are derived from the translation of nucleotide sequence, but we also add sequences obtained through direct sequencing of peptides by Edman degradation and tandem mass sp…
Received 21 April 2009 16:47 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Bioinformatics
Evidence attribution in the UniProt Knowledgebase
UniProtKB provides the scientific community with a comprehensive collection of protein sequence records containing extensive curated information including functional and sequence annotation. This i…
Received 22 April 2009 11:57 UTC; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
ChlamyCyc – a comprehensive database and web-portal centered on Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Background – The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is an important eukaryotic model organism for the study of photosynthesis and growth, as well as flagella development and other…
Received 20 April 2009 23:01 UTC; Posted 21 April 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
Hierarchical coexistence of universality and diversity controls robustness and multi-functionality in intermediate filament protein networks
Proteins constitute the elementary building blocks of a vast variety of biological materials such as cellular protein networks, spider silk or bone, where they create extremely robust, multi-functi…
Received 25 August 2007 20:14 UTC; Posted 27 August 2007
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Ecology, Molecular Cell Biology
Fast and Scriptable Molecular Graphics in Web Browsers without Java3D
Jmol is a free, open source molecule viewer for chemistry and biochemistry. It is cross-platform, running on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux/Unix systems. The software consists of three parts: the Jmo…
Received 14 June 2007 14:09 UTC; Posted 14 June 2007
Posted to: Chemistry, Bioinformatics