title: The SWISS-2DPAGE database: what has changed during the last year.
abstract: SWISS-2DPAGE (http://www.expasy.ch/ch2d/) is an annotated two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2-D PAGE) database established in 1993. The current release contains 21 reference maps from human and mouse biological samples, as well as from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli and Dictyostelium discoideum origin. These reference maps now have 2480 identified spots, corresponding to 528 separate protein entries in the database, in addition to virtual entries for each SWISS-PROT sequence. During the last year, the SWISS-2DPAGE has undergone major changes. Six new maps have been added, and new functions to access the data have been provided through the ExPASy server. Finally, an important change concerns the database funding source.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, c/o Medical Informatics Division, Geneva University Hospital, 24 rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland. christine.hoogland@isb-sib.ch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoogland
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sanchez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tonella
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bairoch
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Hochstrasser
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Appel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000191:economics; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000737:chemistry; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D051379:Mice; D010449:Peptide Mapping; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins