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Toxins 2010, 2(2), 262-282; doi:10.3390/toxins2020261
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Animal Toxins: How is Complexity Represented in Databases?
Florence Jungo 1,*
, Anne Estreicher 1 , Amos Bairoch 2 , Lydie Bougueleret 1 and Ioannis Xenarios 1,3
, Anne Estreicher 1 , Amos Bairoch 2 , Lydie Bougueleret 1 and Ioannis Xenarios 1,3
1
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Medical Universitaire, 1 rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
2
Department of Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
3
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Vital-IT Group, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Received: 22 January 2010; in revised form: 10 February 2010 / Accepted: 11 February 2010 / Published: 21 February 2010
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal Venoms)
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Abstract: Peptide toxins synthesized by venomous animals have been extensively studied in the last decades. To be useful to the scientific community, this knowledge has been stored, annotated and made easy to retrieve by several databases. The aim of this article is to present what type of information users can access from each database. ArachnoServer and ConoServer focus on spider toxins and cone snail toxins, respectively. UniProtKB, a generalist protein knowledgebase, has an animal toxin-dedicated annotation program that includes toxins from all venomous animals. Finally, the ATDB metadatabase compiles data and annotations from other databases and provides toxin ontology.
Keywords: animal toxin; ArachnoServer; ATDB; ConoServer; database; Tox-Prot; UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot; venom protein
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Jungo, F.; Estreicher, A.; Bairoch, A.; Bougueleret, L.; Xenarios, I. Animal Toxins: How is Complexity Represented in Databases? Toxins 2010, 2, 262-282.
AMA StyleJungo F, Estreicher A, Bairoch A, Bougueleret L, Xenarios I. Animal Toxins: How is Complexity Represented in Databases? Toxins. 2010; 2(2):262-282.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJungo, Florence; Estreicher, Anne; Bairoch, Amos; Bougueleret, Lydie; Xenarios, Ioannis. 2010. "Animal Toxins: How is Complexity Represented in Databases?" Toxins 2, no. 2: 262-282.