Creating a specialist protein resource network: a meeting report for the protein bioinformatics and community resources retreat.
During 11-12 August 2014, a Protein Bioinformatics and Community Resources Retreat was held at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. This meeting brought together the principal investigators of several specialized protein resources (such as CAZy, TCDB and MEROPS) as well as those from protein databases from the large Bioinformatics centres (including UniProt and RefSeq). The retreat was divided into five sessions: (1) key challenges, (2) the databases represented, (3) best practices for maintenance and curation, (4) information flow to and from large data centers and (5) communication and funding. An important outcome of this meeting was the creation of a Specialist Protein Resource Network that we believe will improve coordination of the activities of its member resources. We invite further protein database resources to join the network and continue the dialogue.
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Patricia C
PC
Babbitt
Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Papasiopoulou 2-4, Lamia, 35100, Greece.
Pantelis G
PG
Bagos
SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CMU, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
Amos
A
Bairoch
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Alex
A
Bateman
INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, F-34000 Montpellier, France.
Arnaud
A
Chatonnet
Razavi Newman Center for Bioinformatics, Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA, ; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
Mark Jinan
MJ
Chen
Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Rd, Building 80, The University of Queensland, Australia.
David J
DJ
Craik
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Robert D
RD
Finn
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 162, 2100 København Ø, Denmark.
David
D
Gloriam
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38 A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Daniel H
DH
Haft
Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, 13288 Marseille, France, ; Department of Biological Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Bernard
B
Henrissat
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California San Francisco, 1700 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
Gemma L
GL
Holliday
Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Jagtvej 162, 2100 København Ø, Denmark, ; CMBI, Raboudumc, Geert Grootplein Zuid 26-28, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Vignir
V
Isberg
Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Rd, Building 80, The University of Queensland, Australia.
Quentin
Q
Kaas
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38 A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
David
D
Landsman
INRA, UMR866 Dynamique Musculaire et Métabolisme, F-34000 Montpellier, France.
Nicolas
N
Lenfant
Razavi Newman Center for Bioinformatics, Salk Institute, 10010 North Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA, ; Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.
Gerard
G
Manning
Biotechnology Research Institute for Drug Discovery, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-4-7 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan.
Nozomi
N
Nagano
Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
Narayanaswamy
N
Srinivasan
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Claire
C
O'Donovan
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 38 A, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Kim D
KD
Pruitt
National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, GKVK Campus, Bangalore 560 065, India.
Ramanathan
R
Sowdhamini
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
Neil D
ND
Rawlings
Department of Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.
Milton H
MH
Saier
Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
Joanna L
JL
Sharman
Spedding Research Solutions, 6 Rue Ampere, 78110 Le Vesinet, France and.
Michael
M
Spedding
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Swedish E-Science Research Center, Stockholm University, Box 1031, 17121 Solna, Sweden.
Konstantinos D
KD
Tsirigos
Department of Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.
Ake
A
Vastermark
CMBI, Raboudumc, Geert Grootplein Zuid 26-28, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Gerrit
G
Vriend
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