title: VerSeDa: vertebrate secretome database.
abstract: Based on the current tools, de novo secretome (full set of proteins secreted by an organism) prediction is a time consuming bioinformatic task that requires a multifactorial analysis in order to obtain reliable in silico predictions. Hence, to accelerate this process and offer researchers a reliable repository where secretome information can be obtained for vertebrates and model organisms, we have developed VerSeDa (Vertebrate Secretome Database). This freely available database stores information about proteins that are predicted to be secreted through the classical and non-classical mechanisms, for the wide range of vertebrate species deposited at the NCBI, UCSC and ENSEMBL sites. To our knowledge, VerSeDa is the only state-of-the-art database designed to store secretome data from multiple vertebrate genomes, thus, saving an important amount of time spent in the prediction of protein features that can be retrieved from this repository directly.
  
  
  
  VerSeDa is freely available at http://genomics.cicbiogune.es/VerSeDa/index.php.
authors.affiliation: Genome Analysis Platform, CIC bioGUNE & CIBERehd, Bizkaia Technology Park, 48160 Derio, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Cortazar
authors.affiliation: Genetics and Microbiology Research Group, Department of Agrarian Production, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain.
authors.forename: José A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Oguiza
authors.affiliation: Genome Analysis Platform, CIC bioGUNE & CIBERehd, Bizkaia Technology Park, 48160 Derio, Spain.
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Aransay
authors.affiliation: Genome Analysis Platform, CIC bioGUNE & CIBERehd, Bizkaia Technology Park, 48160 Derio, Spain.
authors.forename: José L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lavín
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016678:Genome; D020543:Proteome / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome