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Class Journal Week Five

Tauras, Lena, and Miles

Database: TFClass

Database Webiste: TFClass

Hilda and Mitchell

Database: Protogen

Link: [Protogen]

Information

Protegen

1. [Protegen]
2. Protegen contains curated information about protective antigens that are able to stimulate the production of antibodies and/or cell mediated immunity against specific pathogens. [Introduction]
3. This database has allowed for the "storage, annotation, comparison, and analysis of 854 protective antigens for 200 pathogens, including more than 50 protective antigens for cancer and allergy (Yang, Sayers, Xiang, He 2010). [Introduction] [Statistics]
4. Protective antigens and pathogens that include antibodies, bacteria, viruses, and parasites. [Introduction]
5. Protective antigens, bacteria, viruses, parasites, fungi
6. Biological Questions
   • What are protective antigens ?
   • Importance of identification of protective antigens
   • Protective Antigens as biological markers

#Computerized and manual in-house and community curated [[Semi-automatic annotation of protective antigens]

1. University of Michigan Medical School, Ann, Arbor, MI.
   • Webmaster: Zuoshuang Xiang
2. Funding is provided by the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant (R01AI81062) [Funding]
3. No. [Disclaimer]
4. Database is SUPPOSED to update every quarter
   • Most recent update was on November 11, 2011 [Updates]
5. Yes
   • [PubMed]
   • [Protein Data Bank]
6. Yes [Data Download] [Data Transfer and Download]
   • FASTA
   • HTML
   • EXCEL
   • OWL formats
7. User-Friendliness
   • Yes (look for yourself: [Protegen])
   • Yes [Help]
   • Yes. Provides links to relevant information pertaining to my query (RB51)