The ‘Indian Structural Data Archive’ is a ‘3D MacroMolecular’ or, more especially ‘Protein Structural Database’ at the Indian Biological Data Center for data distribution about macromolecular structures. ISDA is a state-of-the-art resource for researchers investigating the structural and functional properties of 3D biomolecules. The ISDA provides detailed information on macromolecules, protein-ligand complexes, genetic mutation, and Protein-protein interactions, which can facilitate advances in molecular biology, drug design, and biotechnology. The database also offers links to protein sequence information, textual information from scientific publications and a number of derived properties that augment the macromolecular structure information.
Macromolecule databases are specialized repositories that store structural and functional information about biological macromolecules. This includes proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and complexes that provide insights into these biological molecules’ 3D architecture, interactions, and dynamics.
Comprehensive Data Coverage: Contains epidemically determined high-resolution structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and their complexes.
Detailed Annotations: Includes functional annotations such as Pfam, Interpore, Water site, Ligand Binding site, atomic coordinates details, functional domains, and interaction sites.
Visualization Tools: Offers interactive 3D visualization for exploring macromolecular structures in detail.
Integration with Other Databases: Linked with nucleotide, proteome, and functional datasets for holistic research.
Regular Updates: Enriched with new interactive figures and discoveries from global scientific efforts.
Understanding the structure is essential for elucidating biological mechanisms and designing effective treatments. This database supports a wide variety of applications. Including enzyme engineering vaccine development and studying Protein structural evolution. Researchers rely on large-scale protein structural data for computational modeling, Connection studies and bio-molecular simulation.
ISDA database is a useful resource containing detailed information for macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, and larger biomolecular Structural complexes. It allows researchers to integrate structural and functional data, study molecular interactions, and explore temporal changes in these molecules. The database is pivotal for drug discovery, structural biology, and genomics, as well as tools for visualization and analysis. It aids scientists in their biological systems research and understanding its underlying fundamentals by supplying high-quality curated data and models; data and models that provide the context to allow the zeroth and first principles of biology to be explored.
Refer to: https://ibdc.dbtindia.gov.in/isda/