Title
Mmdb: 3d Structures And Macromolecular Interactions
Abstract
Close to 60% of protein sequences tracked in comprehensive databases can be mapped to a known three-dimensional (3D) structure by standard sequence similarity searches. Potentially, a great deal can be learned about proteins or protein families of interest from considering 3D structure, and to this day 3D structure data may remain an underutilized resource. Here we present enhancements in the Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB) and its data presentation, specifically pertaining to biologically relevant complexes and molecular interactions. MMDB is tightly integrated with NCBI's Entrez search and retrieval system, and mirrors the contents of the Protein Data Bank. It links protein 3D structure data with sequence data, sequence classification resources and PubChem, a repository of small-molecule chemical structures and their biological activities, facilitating access to 3D structure data not only for structural biologists, but also for molecular biologists and chemists. MMDB provides a complete set of detailed and pre-computed structural alignments obtained with the VAST algorithm, and provides visualization tools for 3D structure and structure/sequence alignment via the molecular graphics viewer Cn3D. MMDB can be accessed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/structure.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1093/nar/gkr1162
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
protein conformation,nucleic
Sequence alignment,Molecular Modeling Database,Protein structure database,Biology,Molecular graphics,Entrez,PubChem,Bioinformatics,Computational biology,Genetics,Protein Data Bank,Protein structure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
D1
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.90
4
Authors
15
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Madej1212195.38
Kenneth J Addess216765.65
Jessica H Fong317617.28
Lewis Y. Geer41060340.18
Renata C. Geer525017.98
Christopher J Lanczycki6426172.22
Chunlei Liu7351171.80
Shennan Lu829321.83
Aron Marchler-bauer91175339.48
Anna R. Panchenko10907252.52
Jie Chen112487353.65
Paul A. Thiessen12521232.54
Yanli Wang131089270.38
Dachuan Zhang1432842.36
Stephen H. Bryant152295488.12