Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31318422›Full record

ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2019

IRAM: virus capsid database and analysis resource.

Iman Almansour, Mazen Alhagri, Rahaf Alfares, Manal Alshehri, Razan Bakhashwain, Ahmed Maarouf

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Microbe Directory: a centralized database for biological interpretation of microbiome data.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Iman AlmansourEpidemic Diseases Department, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O.Box 1982, Dammam 31441 Saudi Arabia.
Mazen AlhagriScientific and High Performance Computing Center, Deanship of Information and Communication Technology, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O.Box 1982, Dammam 31441 Saudi Arabia.
Rahaf AlfaresEpidemic Diseases Department, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O.Box 1982, Dammam 31441 Saudi Arabia.
Manal AlshehriEpidemic Diseases Department, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O.Box 1982, Dammam 31441 Saudi Arabia.
Razan BakhashwainDepartment of Physics, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O.Box 1982, Dammam 31441 Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed MaaroufDepartment of Physics, Institute for Research and Medical Consultations, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O.Box 1982, Dammam 31441 Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

IRAM is an online, open access, comprehensive database and analysis resource for virus capsids. The database includes over 200 000 hierarchically organized capsid-associated nucleotide and amino acid sequences, as well as 193 capsids structures of high resolution (1-5 Å). Each capsid's structure includes a data file for capsid domain (PDB), capsid symmetry unit (PDB) and capsid structure information (PSF); these contain capsid structural information that is necessary to run further computational studies. Physicochemical properties analysis is implemented for calculating capsid total charge at given radii and for calculating charge distributions. This resource includes BLASTn and BLASTp tools, which can be applied to compare nucleotide and amino acid sequences. The diverse functionality of IRAM is valuable to researchers because it integrates different aspects of virus capsids via a user-friendly interface. Such data are critical for studying capsid evolution and patterns of conservation. The IRAM database can also provide initial necessary information for the design of synthetic capsids for various biotechnological applications.

Indexed as

CapsidCapsid ProteinsDatabases, ProteinCapsid Proteins

Identifiers

PMID31318422
PMCPMC6637973

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.