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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2005

SPdb--a signal peptide database.

Khar Heng Choo, Tin Wee Tan, Shoba Ranganathan

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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3 authors.

Khar Heng ChooDepartment of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore. justin@bic.nus.edu.sg
Tin Wee Tan
Shoba Ranganathan

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe signal peptide plays an important role in protein targeting and protein translocation in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. This transient, short peptide sequence functions like a postal address on an envelope by targeting proteins for secretion or for transfer to specific organelles for further processing. Understanding how signal peptides function is crucial in predicting where proteins are translocated. To support this understanding, we present SPdb signal peptide database http://proline.bic.nus.edu.sg/spdb, a repository of experimentally determined and computationally predicted signal peptides.

resultsSPdb integrates information from two sources (a) Swiss-Prot protein sequence database which is now part of UniProt and (b) EMBL nucleotide sequence database. The database update is semi-automated with human checking and verification of the data to ensure the correctness of the data stored. The latest release SPdb release 3.2 contains 18,146 entries of which 2,584 entries are experimentally verified signal sequences; the remaining 15,562 entries are either signal sequences that fail to meet our filtering criteria or entries that contain unverified signal sequences.

conclusionSPdb is a manually curated database constructed to support the understanding and analysis of signal peptides. SPdb tracks the major updates of the two underlying primary databases thereby ensuring that its information remains up-to-date.

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Databases, Nucleic AcidInternetPeptidesProtein Sorting SignalsProtein TransportSequence Analysis, ProteinSystems IntegrationUser-Computer InterfaceVocabulary, ControlledPeptidesProtein Sorting Signals

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PMID16221310
PMCPMC1276010

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