PDB-Metrics: a web tool for exploring the PDB contents.

• Autor(a) principal: FILETO, R.
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: KUSER, P. R., YAMAGISHI, M. E. B., RIBEIRO, A. A., QUINALIA, T. G., FRANCO, E. H., MANCINI, A. L., HIGA, R. H., OLIVEIRA, S. R. M., SANTOS, E. H., VIEIRA, F. D., MAZONI, I., CRUZ, S. A. B., NESHICH, G.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/8264
• topic: Bioinformática; Banco de dados de proteína; PDB data distribution statistics; Protein Data Bank; Bioinformatics; Proteins

Abstract. PDB-Metrics (http://sms.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/pdb_metrics/index.html) is a component of the Diamond STING suite of programs for the analysis of protein sequence, structure and function. It summarizes the characteristics of the collection of protein structure descriptions deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and provides a Web interface to search and browse the PDB, using a variety of alternative criteria. PDB-Metrics is a powerful tool for bioinformaticians to examine the data span in the PDB from several perspectives. Although other Web sites offer some similar resources to explore the PDB contents, PDB-Metrics is among those with the most complete set of such facilities, integrated into a single Web site. This program has been developed using SQLite, a C library that provides all the query facilities of a database management system.