title: soaPDB: a web application for searching the Protein Data Bank, organizing results, and receiving automatic email alerts.
abstract: soaPDB is a web application that allows generation and organization of saved PDB searches, and offers automatic email alerts. This tool is used from a web interface to store PDB searches and results in a backend relational database. Written using the Ruby on Rails open-source web framework, soaPDB is easy to deploy, maintain and customize. soaPDB is freely available upon request for local installation and is also available at http://soapdb.dyndns.org:3000.
authors.affiliation: Department of Drug Design, Schering-Plough Research Institute, 2015 Galloping Hill Road, Kenilworth, NJ 07033, USA. charles.lesburg@spcorp.com
authors.forename: Charles A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Lesburg
authors.forename: José S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Duca
mesh_terms: D030562:Databases, Protein; D034742:Electronic Mail; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface