Olfactory Receptor Database: a sensory chemoreceptor resource

The Olfactory Receptor Database (ORDB) is a WWWaccessible database that has been expanded from an olfactory receptor resource to a chemoreceptor resource. It stores data on six classes of G-proteincoupled sensory chemoreceptors: (i) olfactory receptor-like proteins, (ii) vomeronasal receptors, (iii) insect olfactory receptors, (iv) worm chemoreceptors, (v) taste papilla receptors and (vi) fungal pheromone receptors. A complementary database of the ligands of these receptors (OdorDB) has been constructed and is publicly available in a pilot mode. The database schema of ORDB has been changed from traditional relational to EAV/CR (EntityAttribute-Value with Classes and Relationships), which allows the interoperability of ORDB with other related databases as well as the creation of intradatabase associations among objects. This interoperability facilitates users to follow information from odor molecule binding to its putative receptor, to the properties of the neuron expressing the recept...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Emmanouil Skoufos, Luis N. Marenco, Prakash M. Nadkarni, Perry L. Miller, Gordon M. Shepherd
• Keywords: NAR 2000, Olfactory Receptor Database, Olfactory Receptors, Receptors