Adding Some SPICE to DAS
- 1 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics
- Vol. 21 (suppl_2) , ii40-ii41
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1106
Abstract
The distributed annotation system (DAS) defines a communication protocol used to exchange biological annotations. It is motivated by the idea that annotations should not be provided by single centralized databases but instead be spread over multiple sites. Data distribution, performed by DAS servers, is separated from visualization, which is carried out by DAS clients. The original DAS protocol was designed to serve annotation of genomic sequences. We have extended the protocol to be applicable to macromolecular structures. Here we present SPICE, a new DAS client that can be used to visualize protein sequence and structure annotations. http://www.efamily.org.uk/software/dasclients/spice/Keywords
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