Forwarded from sci.techniques.mass-spec......
At NIH we are trying to get the NCBI, who run the National Library of
Medicine's protein databases (e.g.Entrez, BLAST), to add the molecular
weight of the protein as a searchable item. NCBI would like an estimate
of how many people would make use of this feature i.e. would like to be
able to identify a protein from its "accurate" molecular mass and some
keywords. We have put up a trial system at
http://sx102a.niddk.nih.gov/smass.html which you may look at and use.
Warning... (1) it is a trial system only and no signal sequences are
removed and (2) keywording is minimal. What we need is support from
people to get this information added to the NCBI databases. Email to me
will help but, better still, if you open the site above and do a search,
these statistics are being kept and will be used to influence the
decision. We will appreciate any encouragement as we think this
information publically searchable in the database will extremely useful to
many users, especially to the mass spectrometry community.
Lewis Pannell, NIDDK, NIH.
(ph. 301-402-2196, FAX 301-402-1967)
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Dr Len C. Packman
Assistant Director of Research
Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Facility
Department of Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
80 Tennis Court Road
Old Addenbrookes Site
Cambridge, CB2 1GA, UK
Tel: +44 (1223) 333639
FAX: +44 (1223) 766002
e-mail: lcp2@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
Visit my WWW page at http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/proj/adr/PNAC/pnac.html
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