Protein Databases- Types and Importance
As biology has increasingly turned into a data-rich science, the need for storing and communicating large datasets has grown tremendously. The obvious examples are the nucleotide sequences, the protein sequences, and the 3D structural data produced by X-ray crystallography and macromolecular NMR. The biological information of proteins is available as sequences and structures. Sequences are represented in a single dimension whereas the structure contains the three-dimensional data of sequences. A biological database is a collection of data that is organized …Read more