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What is the Olfactory Receptor Database?

April 26, 2017database olfactory receptor

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What is the Olfactory Receptor Database?

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The Olfactory Receptor Database is hosted in senselab.med.yale.edu, in one of the Windows NT servers of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, communicating using active server page technology with the main Oracle database of Yale University School of Medicine, which stores the actual ORDB data. The database aims to house all of the known olfactory receptor and chemoreceptor sequences in both nucleotide and amino acid form and serves four main purposes: • It is a repository of olfactory receptor sequences. • It provides tools for sequence analysis. • It supports similarity searches (screens) which reduces duplicate work. • It provides links to other types of receptor information, e.g. 3D models.