title: SACS--self-maintaining database of antibody crystal structure information.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 228, Reading RG6 6AJ, UK.
authors.forename: Lee C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Allcorn
authors.forename: Andrew C R
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000906:Antibodies / Q000737:chemistry*; D019295:Computational Biology; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies