SWISS-PROT: connecting biomolecular knowledge via a protein database.

@article{citeulike:119351, abstract = {With the explosive growth of biological data, the development of new means of data storage was needed. More and more often biological information is no longer published in the conventional way via a publication in a scientific journal, but only deposited into a database. In the last two decades these databases have become essential tools for researchers in biological sciences. Biological databases can be classified according to the type of information they contain. There are basically three types of sequence-related databases (nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences and protein tertiary structures) as well as various specialized data collections. It is important to provide the users of biomolecular databases with a degree of integration between these databases as by nature all of these databases are connected in a scientific sense and each one of them is an important piece to biological complexity. In this review we will highlight our effort in connecting biological information as demonstrated in the SWISS-PROT protein database.}, address = {SWISS-PROT group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CMU, Gen\`{e}ve. Elisabeth.Gasteiger@isb-sib.ch}, author = {Gasteiger, E. and Jung, E. and Bairoch, A. }, citeulike-article-id = {119351}, issn = {1467-3037}, journal = {Current Issues in Molecular Biology}, keywords = {protein\_database, swiss-prot}, month = {July}, number = {3}, pages = {47--55}, posted-at = {2008-05-14 16:39:46}, priority = {2}, title = {SWISS-PROT: connecting biomolecular knowledge via a protein database.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11488411}, volume = {3}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:119351 L3 - citeulike-article-id:119351 TI - SWISS-PROT: connecting biomolecular knowledge via a protein database. JF - Current Issues in Molecular Biology VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 47 EP - 55 AD - SWISS-PROT group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CMU, Genève. Elisabeth.Gasteiger@isb-sib.ch SN - 1467-3037 N2 - With the explosive growth of biological data, the development of new means of data storage was needed. More and more often biological information is no longer published in the conventional way via a publication in a scientific journal, but only deposited into a database. In the last two decades these databases have become essential tools for researchers in biological sciences. Biological databases can be classified according to the type of information they contain. There are basically three types of sequence-related databases (nucleic acid sequences, protein sequences and protein tertiary structures) as well as various specialized data collections. It is important to provide the users of biomolecular databases with a degree of integration between these databases as by nature all of these databases are connected in a scientific sense and each one of them is an important piece to biological complexity. In this review we will highlight our effort in connecting biological information as demonstrated in the SWISS-PROT protein database. KW - protein_database KW - swiss-prot AU - Gasteiger, E AU - Jung, E AU - Bairoch, A PY - 2001/07// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11488411 ER -