title: VARIANT: a store and retrieval system for human haemoglobin variants.
abstract: VARIANT, a FORTRAN 77 computer system for storing and retrieving the amino acid replacements in human haemoglobin variants on a multicriterion basis, is presented. The system is transportable and user-friendly, can easily be expanded and can also be used to create a database of the amino acid replacements in families of homologous proteins, becoming an efficient tool for evolutionary studies.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Naples, Italy.
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Macchiato
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tramontano
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000032:analysis; D006455:Hemoglobins, Abnormal; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D006455:Hemoglobins, Abnormal