SWEET-DB: an attempt to create annotated data collections for carbohydrates.
Complex carbohydrates are known as mediators of complex cellular events. Concerning their structural diversity, their potential of information content is several orders of magnitude higher in a short sequence than any other biological macromolecule. SWEET-DB (http://www.dkfz.de/spec2/sweetdb/) is an attempt to use modern web techniques to annotate and/or cross-reference carbohydrate-related data collections which allow glycoscientists to find important data for compounds of interest in a compact and well-structured representation. Currently, reference data taken from three data sources can be retrieved for a given carbohydrate (sub)structure. The sources are CarbBank structures and literature references (linked to NCBI PubMed service), NMR data taken from SugaBase and 3D co-ordinates generated with SWEET-II. The main purpose of SWEET-DB is to enable an easy access to all data stored for one carbohydrate structure entering a complete sequence or parts thereof. Access to SWEET-DB contents is provided with the help of separate input spreadsheets for (sub)structures, bibliographic data, general structural data like molecular weight, NMR spectra and biological data. A detailed online tutorial is available at http://www.dkfz.de/spec2/sweetdb/nar/.
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Alexander
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University Hildesheim, Institute of Physics and Technical Informatics, Marienburger Platz 22, 31141 Hildesheim, Germany.
Bunsmann
Peter
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Bohne
Andreas
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Loss
Annika
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Schwarzer
Eberhard
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Lang
Elke
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von der Lieth
Claus-W
CW
D002236:Carbohydrate Conformation; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry
D002241:Carbohydrates; D011134:Polysaccharides