title: Ligand Depot: a data warehouse for ligands bound to macromolecules.
abstract: Ligand Depot is an integrated data resource for finding information about small molecules bound to proteins and nucleic acids. The initial release (version 1.0, November, 2003) focuses on providing chemical and structural information for small molecules found as part of the structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank. Ligand Depot accepts keyword-based queries and also provides a graphical interface for performing chemical substructure searches. A wide variety of web resources that contain information on small molecules may also be accessed through Ligand Depot.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Ligand Depot is available at http://ligand-depot.rutgers.edu/. Version 1.0 supports multiple operating systems including Windows, Unix, Linux and the Macintosh operating system. The current drawing tool works in Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla on Windows, Unix and Linux.
authors.affiliation: Protein Data Bank, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
authors.forename: Zukang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Himabindu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maddula
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Akcan
authors.forename: Rose
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Oughtred
authors.forename: Helen M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Westbrook
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D001704:Biopolymers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008024:Ligands; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011485:Protein Binding; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D001704:Biopolymers; D008024:Ligands; D046911:Macromolecular Substances