E-MSD: the European Bioinformatics Institute Macromolecular Structure Database.
Boutselakis H,
Dimitropoulos D,
Fillon J,
Golovin A,
Henrick K,
Hussain A,
Ionides J,
John M,
Keller PA,
Krissinel E,
McNeil P,
Naim A,
Newman R,
Oldfield T,
Pineda J,
Rachedi A,
Copeland J,
Sitnov A,
Sobhany S,
Suarez-Uruena A,
Swaminathan J,
Tagari M,
Tate J,
Tromm S,
Velankar S,
Vranken W.
EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
The E-MSD macromolecular structure relational database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd) is designed to be a single access point for protein and nucleic acid structures and related information. The database is derived from Protein Data Bank (PDB) entries. Relational database technologies are used in a comprehensive cleaning procedure to ensure data uniformity across the whole archive. The search database contains an extensive set of derived properties, goodness-of-fit indicators, and links to other EBI databases including InterPro, GO, and SWISS-PROT, together with links to SCOP, CATH, PFAM and PROSITE. A generic search interface is available, coupled with a fast secondary structure domain search tool.
PMID: 12520052 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC165512