title: BioMolQuest: integrated database-based retrieval of protein structural and functional information.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Information about a particular protein or protein family is usually distributed among multiple databases and often in more than one entry in each database. Retrieval and organization of this information can be a laborious task. This task is complicated even further by the existence of alternative terms for the same concept.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The PDB, SWISS-PROT, ENZYME, and CATH databases have been imported into a combined relational database, BIOMOLQUEST: A powerful search engine has been built using this database as a back end. The search engine achieves significant improvements in query performance by automatically utilizing cross-references between the legacy databases. The results of the queries are presented in an organized, hierarchical way.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Computational Genomics, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 893 N. Warson Rd, St Louis, MO 63141, USA.
authors.forename: Y V
authors.initials: YV
authors.lastname: Bukhman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Skolnick
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins