BioMine-DB: A database for metazoan biomineralization proteins

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1 Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
2 Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1983v2
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Studies, Genomics
Keywords
Biomineralization, Evolution, Skeleton, Calcification
Copyright
© 2016 Kamel et al.
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Cite this article
Kamel BS, Voolstra CR, Medina M. 2016. BioMine-DB: A database for metazoan biomineralization proteins. PeerJ Preprints 4:e1983v2

Abstract

Biomineralization is the process by which living organisms construct hard skeletons creating complex structures that range from specialized tissues such as bone or teeth to ecosystems such as coral reefs. Biominerals are composed of both inorganic minerals and proteins, which give them extra hardness and special attributes. Biomineralization proteins are also known to be associated with multiple bone disorders and are therefore of biomedical importance. Herein we describe BioMine-DB, a biomineralization centric protein database. Availability and implementation: BioMine-DB can be accessed at http://biomine.net, SQL dump, FASTA files and source code are available for download as well at https://github.com/bishoyh/biomineDB "

Author Comment

We changed the title, and moved to github.