BIOINFORMATICS<-->STRUCTURE
Jerusalem, Israel, November 17-21, 1996

Abstract


The Nucleic Acid Database: a research tool for the study of nucleic acid crystal structures

Helen M. Berman, Lester Clowney, Anke Gelbin, Shu-Hsin Hsieh, Wilma K. Olson, John Westbrook, and Christine Zardecki

Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, PO Box 939, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0939, USA

berman@dnarna.rutgers.edu


The Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) has been established as a resource for the study of the three dimensional structures of nucleic acids. At present more than 460 crystal structures are contained in the NDB (http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu, http:// www.ebi.ac.uk/NDB/). The query tool, NDBQuery, allows for diverse types of queries about these structures and produces a wide variety of tabular and graphical reports. A WWW interface provides access to many of the utilities of NDBQuery.

Several applications of NDBQuery will be described, including the production of The Atlas of Nucleic Acid Structures (http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/NDBATLAS/), the classification of packing motifs, and the creation of cross references to other databases.

This work is supported by grants from the NSF and the DOE.


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