Laminin database: a tool to retrieve high-throughput and curated data for studies on laminins

The Laminin(LM)-database, hosted at http://www .lm.lncc.br, is the first database focusing a noncollagenous extracellular matrix protein family, the LMs. Part of the knowledge available in this website is automatically retrieved, whereas a significant amount of information is curated and annotated, thus placing LM-database beyond a simple repository of data. In its home page, an overview of the rationale for the database is seen and readers can access a tutorial to facilitate navigation in the website, which in turn is presented with tabs subdivided into LMs, receptors, extracellular binding and other related proteins. Each tab opens into a given LM or LM-related molecule, where the reader finds a series of further tabs for ‘protein’, ‘gene structure’, ‘gene expression’ and ‘tissue distribution’ and ‘therapy’. Data are separated as a function of species, comprising Homo sapiens, Mus musculus and Rattus novergicus. Furthermore, there is specific tab displaying the L...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Daiane C. F. Golbert, Leandra Linhares-Lacerda, Luiz Gonzaga Almeida, Eliane Correa-de-Santana, Alice R. de Oliveira, Alex S. Mundstein, Wilson Savino, Ana T. R. de Vasconcelos
• Keywords: Knockout Animals, Lm Database, NAR 2011, PubMed