SACS--self-maintaining database of antibody crystal structure information.
BACKGROUND
The rapid increase in the number of structures in the Protein Databank (PDB) makes it difficult to find all structures in a given protein class. Automatically-maintained web-based summaries are one solution to this problem.


RESULTS
Summary of Antibody Crystal Structures (SACS), a self-maintaining web-site containing summary information on antibody structures in the PDB, is described. Mirrored PDB data are processed automatically using a Make-based system to identify new antibody structures. The PDB header records and sequence data are then parsed to identify a number of features of the structure and the data are stored using eXtensible Markup Language (XML). eXtensible Stylesheet Language: Transformations (XSLT), a new style sheet language for XML, is used to generate Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages containing either a one-line summary of every structure or a more detailed page describing a single antibody.
Allcorn
Lee C
LC
School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG6 6AJ, UK.
Martin
Andrew C R
AC
D000906:Antibodies / Q000737:chemistry*; D019295:Computational Biology; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet
D000906:Antibodies