Email updates   Open Access Database  SKPDB: a structural
database of shikimate pathway enzymes  Helen A Arcuri1, Geraldo
FD Zafalon2, Evandro A Marucci2, Carlos E Bonalumi2, Nelson JF
da Silveira3, José M Machado2, Walter F de Azevedo4* and Mário S
Palma1*  Author Affiliations  1 CEIS/Departamento de Biologia,
Instituto de Biociências, UNESP, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil  2
Departamento de Ciência da Computação e Estatística,
UNESP/IBILCE, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brasil  3
Departamento de Ciências Exatas, UNIFAL, Alfenas, Minas Gerais,
Brasil  4 Faculdade de Biociências, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Rio
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BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:12  doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-12
Received:12 May 2009 Accepted:7 January 2010 Published:7 January
2010  © 2010 Arcuri et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.     The
functional and structural characterisation of enzymes that
belong to microbial metabolic pathways is very important for
structure-based drug design. The main