title: Development of the receptor database (RDB): application to the endocrine disruptor problem.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To represent various aspects of receptors effectively, we developed the receptor database (RDB), using an object-oriented database management system ACEDB and the Internet/WWW technology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  RDB was constructed so that the system collects data items such as attributes of proteins from distributed data sources of the Internet, and so that it provides various viewing tools effectively, depending on different types of receptor data. Such sources include standard international biological databases such as the up-to-date database of PIR, Swiss Prot, PDB, GenBank and GDB. Application to the endocrine disruptor problem is presented.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  RDB is available through the Internet at http://impact.nihs.go.jp/RDB.html.
authors.affiliation: Division of Chem-Bio Informatics, National Institute of Health Sciences, 1-18-1, Kamiyoga, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-8501, Japan. nakata@nihs.go.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takai
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaminuma
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface