title: MUTbase: maintenance and analysis of distributed mutation databases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  To develop tools for the submission of mutations to databases and maintenance of locus-specific mutation databases. Advanced, integrated computer systems are needed to store and organize the increasing mutation information.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The MUTbase program suite provides an easy, interactive and quality-controlled submission of information to mutation databases. For further study of the databases on the World Wide Web, a number of tools are provided. The program package also writes and updates a large number of Web pages, e.g. about the distribution and statistics of disease-causing mutations, and changes in restriction patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Turku, Finland.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Riikonen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vihinen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020407:Internet; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes