title: Amino acid quantitative structure property relationship database: a web-based platform for quantitative investigations of amino acids.
abstract: Here, we present the AA-QSPR Db (Amino Acid Quantitative Structure Property Relationship Database): a novel, freely available web-resource of data pertaining to amino acids, both engineered and naturally occurring. In addition to presenting fundamental molecular descriptors of size, charge and hydrophobicity, it also includes online visualization tools for users to perform instant, interactive analyses of amino acid sub-sets in which they are interested. The database has been designed with extensible markup language technology to provide a flexible structure, suitable for future development. In addition to providing easy access for queries by external computers, it also offers a user-friendly web-based interface that facilitates human interactions (submission, storage and retrieval of amino acid data) and an associated e-forum that encourages users to question and discuss current and future database contents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Blazej
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bulka
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: desJardins
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Freeland
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D019295:Computational Biology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020407:Internet; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids