Boutique databases

TABLE 16.5 Representative boutique databases for receptor and signaling proteins... 

The Sequence Retrieval System (Etzold et ah, 1996) is a network browser for databases at EBI. The system allows users to retrieve, link, and access entries from all the interconnected resources such as nucleic acid, EST, protein sequence, protein pattern, protein structure, specialist/boutique, and/or bibliographic databases. The SRS is also a database browser of DDBJ, ExPASy, and a number of servers as the query system. The SRS can be accessed from EBI Tools server at http // www2.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/index.html or directly at http //srs6.ebi.ac.uk/. The SRS permits users to formulate queries across a range of different database types via a single interface in three different methods (Figure 3.4) ... 

The secondary databases contain the fruits of analyses of the sequences or structures in the primary sources such as patterns, motifs, functional sites and so on. Many databases known as boutique (specialized) databases select, annotate and recombine data focused on particular topics, and include hnks affording streamlined access to information about subjects of interest. 

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