Protein Lounge is an extensive collection of interactive, Web-based databases and downloadable tools created to help life scientists design laboratory experiments and understand results in the area of systems biology. It's now available for members of the Stanford community.
Featured Protein Lounge databases:
- The siRNA Target Database enables identification of siRNA target sequences using pre-computed targets for all known genes.
- The Peptide-Antigen Target Database stores antigenic peptide targets against all known protein sequences throughout a variety of organisms.
- The Kinase-Phosphatase Database enables searching by kinases, phosphatases or by substrate, the goal being to facilitate an understanding of the patterns of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation within the cell.
Protein Lounge also provides unique tools that you can download. Pathway Builder contains all the necessary pathway items such as membranes, protein/receptor shapes, and organelles, so you can select the items and arrange your signal transduction pathway. There are also many pre-made pathways, which are very useful for presentations and publications. The PathwayPublisher greatly facilitates publication of pathways on the Web. You can also keep track of computational results using the LabBook to save research data from the other Protein Lounge tools and databases.
Some sample applications of Protein Lounge include:
- Designing an siRNA target.
- Raising an antibody.
- Understanding signal transduction.
- Identifying reagents for studying signal transduction.
- Creating illustrations of signaling pathways.
