Animal toxins: How is complexity represented in databases?

Toxins

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 262-282

  Jungo, Florence ^a   Estreicher, Anne ^a   Bairoch, Amos ^b   Bougueleret, Lydie ^a   Xenarios, Ioannis ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Animal toxin; Arachnoserver; ATDB; Conoserver; Database; Tox prot; Uniprotkb swiss prot; Venom protein

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL N TYPE; CONOTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; SNAIL VENOM; SPIDER VENOM; VENOM; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL TOXIN DATABASE; ARACHNOSERVER; CHRONIC PAIN; CONOSERVER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PAIN; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; UNIPROTKB; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; GASTROPODA;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 79952052853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins2020261     Document Type: Review

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