title: Animal Toxins: How is Complexity Represented in Databases?
abstract: Peptide toxins synthesized by venomous animals have been extensively studied in the last decades. To be useful to the scientific community, this knowledge has been stored, annotated and made easy to retrieve by several databases. The aim of this article is to present what type of information users can access from each database. ArachnoServer and ConoServer focus on spider toxins and cone snail toxins, respectively. UniProtKB, a generalist protein knowledgebase, has an animal toxin-dedicated annotation program that includes toxins from all venomous animals. Finally, the ATDB metadatabase compiles data and annotations from other databases and provides toxin ontology.
authors: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Medical Universitaire, 1 rue Michel-Servet, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland. Florence.Jungo@isb-sib.ch
authors: Florence
authors: F
authors: Jungo
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Estreicher
authors: Amos
authors: A
authors: Bairoch
authors: Lydie
authors: L
authors: Bougueleret
authors: Ioannis
authors: I
authors: Xenarios
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030562:Databases, Protein; D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; D012984:Software; D013111:Spider Venoms
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; D013111:Spider Venoms