Nucleic Acid Database

The Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) is a relational database designed to facilitate the easy search for crystal structures of nucleic acid structures using any of the stored primary or derived structural features. This search is done by using NDBQUERY, the menu-driven interface program, with the database. This application permits a user to create reports describing any of the stored properties of any structures in the database.

A session with the program generally consists of two separate tasks: in the first part, the user defines structures which are searched for, and then, in the second part, the output options for the selected structures are chosen. A session with the program can be saved in a well-defined command file for subsequent reuse or modification.

John Westbrook

Dir., Computational Chemistry