UniPROBE, update 2011: expanded content and search tools in the online database of protein-binding microarray data on protein-DNA interactions

Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan;39(Database issue):D124-8. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkq992. Epub 2010 Oct 30.

Abstract

The Universal PBM Resource for Oligonucleotide-Binding Evaluation (UniPROBE) database is a centralized repository of information on the DNA-binding preferences of proteins as determined by universal protein-binding microarray (PBM) technology. Each entry for a protein (or protein complex) in UniPROBE provides the quantitative preferences for all possible nucleotide sequence variants ('words') of length k ('k-mers'), as well as position weight matrix (PWM) and graphical sequence logo representations of the k-mer data. In this update, we describe >130% expansion of the database content, incorporation of a protein BLAST (blastp) tool for finding protein sequence matches in UniPROBE, the introduction of UniPROBE accession numbers and additional database enhancements. The UniPROBE database is available at http://uniprobe.org.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Binding Sites
  • DNA / chemistry
  • DNA / metabolism
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / chemistry
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism*
  • Databases, Protein*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Protein Array Analysis
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein
  • Software

Substances

  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • DNA