The Transporter Classification Database: recent advances

@article{citeulike:3664392, abstract = {The Transporter Classification Database (TCDB), freely accessible at http://www.tcdb.org, is a relational database containing sequence, structural, functional and evolutionary information about transport systems from a variety of living organisms, based on the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-approved transporter classification (TC) system. It is a curated repository for factual information compiled largely from published references. It uses a functional/phylogenetic system of classification, and currently encompasses about 5000 representative transporters and putative transporters in more than 500 families. We here describe novel software designed to support and extend the usefulness of TCDB. Our recent efforts render it more user friendly, incorporate machine learning to input novel data in a semiautomatic fashion, and allow analyses that are more accurate and less time consuming. The availability of these tools has resulted in recognition of distant phylogenetic relationships and tremendous expansion of the information available to TCDB users. 10.1093/nar/gkn862}, author = {Saier, Milton H. and Yen, Ming R. and Noto, Keith and Tamang, Dorjee G. and Elkan, Charles}, citeulike-article-id = {3664392}, doi = {10.1093/nar/gkn862}, journal = {Nucl. Acids Res.}, keywords = {annotation, db, transporter}, month = {November}, pages = {gkn862+}, posted-at = {2008-11-23 09:34:33}, priority = {2}, title = {The Transporter Classification Database: recent advances}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn862}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3664392 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3664392 N2 - The Transporter Classification Database (TCDB), freely accessible at http://www.tcdb.org, is a relational database containing sequence, structural, functional and evolutionary information about transport systems from a variety of living organisms, based on the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-approved transporter classification (TC) system. It is a curated repository for factual information compiled largely from published references. It uses a functional/phylogenetic system of classification, and currently encompasses about 5000 representative transporters and putative transporters in more than 500 families. We here describe novel software designed to support and extend the usefulness of TCDB. Our recent efforts render it more user friendly, incorporate machine learning to input novel data in a semiautomatic fashion, and allow analyses that are more accurate and less time consuming. The availability of these tools has resulted in recognition of distant phylogenetic relationships and tremendous expansion of the information available to TCDB users. 10.1093/nar/gkn862 JF - Nucl. Acids Res. TI - The Transporter Classification Database: recent advances SP - gkn862 KW - annotation KW - db KW - transporter AU - Saier, Milton AU - Yen, Ming AU - Noto, Keith AU - Tamang, Dorjee AU - Elkan, Charles PY - 2008/11/20/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn862 ER -