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Protein Information Crawler (PIC): Extensive spidering of multiple protein information resources for large protein sets
Author(s) -
Mayer Ulrich
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
proteomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.26
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1615-9861
pISSN - 1615-9853
DOI - 10.1002/pmic.200700865
Subject(s) - computer science , table (database) , ensembl , web crawler , database , web server , information retrieval , world wide web , the internet , biology , gene , biochemistry , genomics , genome
Proteomic studies often produce sets of hundreds of proteins. Bioinformatic information for these large protein sets must be collected from multiple online resources. Protein Information Crawler (PIC) automatically bulk-collects such data from multiple databases and prediction servers, based on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) gi numbers or accession numbers, and summarizes them in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and/or HTML table. PIC greatly accelerates information procurement, helps to build customized protein information databases and drastically reduces manual database investigation in extensive proteomic studies.