DOLOP-database of bacterial lipoproteins

Bacterial lipoproteins and lipid modification are gaining importance owing to their essential nature, roles in pathogenesis and interesting commercial applications. We have created an exclusive knowledge base for bacterial lipoproteins by processing information from 510 entries to provide a list of 199 distinct lipoproteins with relevant links to molecular details, Features include functional classification, predictive algorithm for query sequences, primary sequence analysis and lists of predicted lipoproteins from 43 completed bacterial genomes along with interactive information exchange facility. Availability: The website called Database Of bacterial LipOProteins (DOLOP) is available at http://www.mrc-lmb. cam.ac.uk/genomes/dolop along with additional information on the biosynthetic pathway, supplementary material and other related figures. Contact: ksankaran@annauniv.edu; madanm@mrclmb.cam.ac.uk.