Key challenges for the creation and maintenance of specialist protein resources.

ABSTRACT: As the volume of data relating to proteins increases, researchers rely more and more on the analysis of published data, thus increasing the importance of good access to these data that vary from the supplemental material of individual articles, all the way to major reference databases with professional staff and long-term funding. Specialist protein resources fill an important middle ground, providing interactive web interfaces to their databases for a focused topic or family of proteins, using specialized approaches that are not feasible in the major reference databases. Many are labors of love, run by a single lab with little or no dedicated funding and there are many challenges to building and maintaining them. This perspective arose from a meeting of several specialist protein resource

SUBMITTER: Holliday GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4446195 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature