Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, PO Box 939, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0939, USA
The Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) has been established as a resource for the study of the three dimensional structures of nucleic acids. At present more than 460 crystal structures are contained in the NDB (http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu, http:// www.ebi.ac.uk/NDB/). The query tool, NDBQuery, allows for diverse types of queries about these structures and produces a wide variety of tabular and graphical reports. A WWW interface provides access to many of the utilities of NDBQuery.
Several applications of NDBQuery will be described, including the production of The Atlas of Nucleic Acid Structures (http://ndbserver.rutgers.edu/NDBATLAS/), the classification of packing motifs, and the creation of cross references to other databases.
This work is supported by grants from the NSF and the DOE.