Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 25, 2008
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn206
gpDB: A database of GPCRs, G-proteins, Effectors and their interactions.
1Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens, Athens 157 01, Greece
2Department of Informatics with Applications in Biomedicine, University of Central Greece, Lamia 35 100, Greece
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Prof. Stavros J Hamodrakas, E-mail: shamodr{at}biol.uoa.gr
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Summary: gpDB is a publicly accessible, relational database, containing information about G-proteins, GPCRs and effectors, as well as information concerning known interactions between these molecules. The sequences are classified according to a hierarchy of different classes, families and subfamilies based on literature search. The main innovation besides the classification of G-proteins, GPCRs and effectors is the relational model of the database, describing the known coupling specificity of GPCRs to their respective alpha subunits of G-proteins, and also the specific interaction between G-proteins and their effectors, a unique feature not available in any other database.
Availability: http://bioinformatics.biol.uoa.gr/gpDB
Contact: shamodr{at}biol.uoa.gr
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available on Bioinformatics online.
Associate Editor: Dr. Jonathan Wren
Received on December 26, 2007; revised on March 26, 2008; accepted on April 23, 2008
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