MPSS: an integrated database system for surveying a set of proteins.
CONCLUSIONS
We design and implement an integrated database system called 'multi-protein survey system' (MPSS), which provides a platform to retrieve information about many proteins at a time. This system integrates several important and widely used databases including SwissProt, TrEMBL, PDB and InterPro, plus useful references such as GO and KEGG to other databases. Users may submit a group of protein IDs, entry names, SwissProt/TrEMBL accession numbers or GenBank GIs through MPSS' web interface, and obtain protein annotation information from public databases and pre-computed molecular properties speedily. MPSS can also supply comprehensive information about query proteins, including 3D structures, domains, pathway, gene ontology and visual presentation of mapping to the GO tree and KEGG pathway, to provide an up-to-date view of available knowledge with regard to the structures and molecular functions of proteins under study.


BACKGROUND
MPSS is freely accessible at http://www.scbit.org/mpss/
Hao
Pei
P
School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
He
Wei-Zhong
WZ
Huang
Yin
Y
Ma
Liang-Xiao
LX
Xu
Ying
Y
Xi
Hong
H
Wang
Chuan
C
Liu
Bo-Shu
BS
Wang
Jin-Miao
JM
Li
Yi-Xue
YX
Zhong
Yang
Y
D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000378:metabolism*; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface
D011506:Proteins