Integrating public databases into an existing protein visualization and modeling program – BRAGI

Abstract

BRAGI offers an efficient visual access to sequence alignment information, 3D alignments and annotated protein structure-function correlations. As a new feature we have mapped information from SWISS-PROT and InterPro to individual entries of the PDB. 3D structural alignments from DALI database were converted to XML files for easy access in BRAGI. BRAGI provides interactive access to NCBI-Blast and the DALI server. Linking and visualizing different types of information hopefully allow the structure function of proteins to be appreciated more intuitively.