Since its first release in 2008,Norine remains the unique resource completely devoted to nonribosomal peptides(NRPs).They are very attractive microbial secondary metabolites,displaying a remarkable diversity of struct...Since its first release in 2008,Norine remains the unique resource completely devoted to nonribosomal peptides(NRPs).They are very attractive microbial secondary metabolites,displaying a remarkable diversity of structure and functions.Norine(http://bioinfo.lifl.fr/NRP)includes a database now containing more than 1160 annotated peptides and user-friendly interfaces enabling the querying of the database,through the annotations or the structure of the peptides.Dedicated tools are associated for structural comparison of the compounds and prediction of their biological activities.In this paper,we start by describing the knowledgebase and the dedicated tools.We then present some user cases to show how useful Norine is for the discovery of novel nonribosomal peptides.展开更多
文摘Since its first release in 2008,Norine remains the unique resource completely devoted to nonribosomal peptides(NRPs).They are very attractive microbial secondary metabolites,displaying a remarkable diversity of structure and functions.Norine(http://bioinfo.lifl.fr/NRP)includes a database now containing more than 1160 annotated peptides and user-friendly interfaces enabling the querying of the database,through the annotations or the structure of the peptides.Dedicated tools are associated for structural comparison of the compounds and prediction of their biological activities.In this paper,we start by describing the knowledgebase and the dedicated tools.We then present some user cases to show how useful Norine is for the discovery of novel nonribosomal peptides.
