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==Background==
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The Blueprint Initiative started as a research program in the lab of Dr. Christopher Hogue at the [[Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute]] at [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)|Mount Sinai Hospital]] in [[Toronto]]. On December 14, 2005, Unleashed Informatics Limited acquired the commercial rights to The Blueprint Initiative [[intellectual property]]. This included rights to the protein interaction database BIND, the small molecule interaction database SMID, as well as the data warehouse SeqHound. Unleashed Informatics is a data management service provider and is overseeing the management and curation of The Blueprint Initiative under the guidance of Dr. Hogue.<ref>[http://www.blueprint.org Blueprint.org]</ref>
==Construction==
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==Small Molecule Interaction Database (SMID)==
The [[Small Molecule]] Interaction Database is a database containing protein ___domain-small molecule interactions. It uses a ___domain-based approach to identify ___domain families, found in the [[Conserved Domain Database]] (CDD), which interact with a query small molecule. The CDD from [[National Center for Biotechnology Information|NCBI]] amalgamates data from several different sources; [[Protein FAMilies]] (PFAM), [[Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool]] (SMART), [[Cluster of Orthologous Genes]] (COGs), and
SMID can be queried by entering a protein GI, ___domain identifier, PDB ID or SMID ID. The results of a search provide small molecule, protein, and ___domain information for each interaction identified in the database. Interactions with non-biological contacts are normally screened out by default.
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BIND was the first database of its kind to contain info on biomolecular interactions, reactions and pathways in one schema. It is also the first to base its [[ontology]] on chemistry which allows 3D representation of molecular interactions. The underlying chemistry allows molecular interactions to be described down to the atomic level of resolution.<ref name= "2005 update"/>
PreBIND an associated system for data mining to locate biomolecular interaction information in the scientific literature. The name or [[Accession number (bioinformatics)|accession number]] of a protein can be entered and PreBIND will scan the literature and return a list of potentially interacting proteins. BIND [[BLAST (biotechnology)|BLAST]] is also available to find interactions with proteins that are similar to the one specified in the query.<ref name= "2005 update"/>
BIND offers several “features” that many other proteomics databases do not include. The authors of this program have created an extension to traditional [[IUPAC]] nomenclature to help describe [[post-translational modifications]] that occur to amino acids. These modifications include: [[acetylation]], [[formylation]], [[methylation]], [[palmitoylation]], etc. the extension of the traditional IUPAC codes allows these amino acids to be represented in sequence form as well. BIND also utilizes a unique visualization tool known as [[OntoGlyphs]]. The OntoGlyphs were developed based on [[Gene Ontology]] (GO) and provide a link back to the original GO information. A number of GO terms have been grouped into categories, each one representing a specific function, binding specificity, or localization in the cell. There are 83 OntoGlyph characters in total. There are 34 functional OntoGlyphs which contain information about the role of the molecule (e.g. cell physiology, ion transport, signaling). There are 25 binding OntoGlyphs which describe what the molecule binds (e.g. ligands, DNA, ions). The other 24 OntoGlyphs provide information about the ___location of the molecule within a cell (e.g. nucleus, cytoskeleton). The OntoGlyphs can be selected and manipulated to include or exclude certain characteristics from search results. The visual nature of the OntoGlyphs also facilitates pattern recognition when looking at search results.<ref name= "2005 update"/> [[ProteoGlyphs]] are graphical representations of the structural and binding properties of proteins at the level of conserved domains. The protein is diagrammed as a straight horizontal line and glyphs are inserted to represent conserved domains. Each glyph is displayed to represent the relative position and length of its alignment in the protein sequence.
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==References==
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