Integrating protein annotation resources through the Distributed Annotation System.
Using the Distributed Annotation System (DAS) we have created a protein annotation resource available at our web page: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk, as a part of the BioSapiens Network of Excellence EU FP6 project. The DAS protocol allows us to gather layers of annotation data for a given sequence and thereby gain an overview of the sequence's features. A user-friendly graphical client has also been developed (http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/cgi-bin/das), which demonstrates the possibility of integrating DAS annotation data from multiple sources into a simple graphical view. The client displays protein feature annotations from the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis as well as from the BioSapiens reference UniProt server (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/das-srv/uniprot/das) at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Other DAS data sources for protein annotation will be added as they become available.
Center for Biological Sequence, Analysis BioCentrum-DTU, Building 208, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark. pall@cbs.dtu.dk
Páll Isólfur
PI
Olason
D003196:Computer Graphics; D020407:Internet; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface