Structure and Disease

3 November 2009

How do you find structures related to a particular disease?

One method is to type the disease into HubMed, throw in a keyword like crystallography and start digging. Although this method is probably worth doing, you may want to check out the OCA browser-database for protein structure/function.

The disease input is listed on the main page in light purple.
oca Structure and Disease
The disease search is fairly forgiving and accepts symptoms such as cough or vomit.

Here is example of the search results:
oca results Structure and Disease Just as a heads up, the resolution is left as an integer.

This database would also be worth searching when starting up a collaboration with a colleague that is not in the structural field.