title: Allergen databases.
abstract: In this chapter, five popular allergen databases have been described: (1) Allergome is based on basic and clinical information on allergens causing an IgE-mediated disease; (2) AllergenOnline allows online search of peer-reviewed allergen list; (3) International Union of Immunological Societies Allergen nomenclature subcommittee database contains systematic nomenclature and molecular details of well-characterized allergens; (4) AllFam allows classifying allergens into protein families based on domain information; and (5) SDAP provides in detail structural information of the allergens.
authors.affiliation: Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, 93/1 Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata, 700009, India.
authors.forename: Gaurab
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sircar
authors.forename: Debasree
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sarkar
authors.forename: Swati Gupta
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Sudipto
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saha
mesh_terms: D000485:Allergens / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D006969:Hypersensitivity, Immediate / Q000276:immunology*; D020407:Internet; D008968:Molecular Conformation
chemical_list: D000485:Allergens