<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>A relational database structure based on MS-Access and MySQL to store and manage
proteomics data was established. This system may be used to publish two-dimensional
electrophoretic proteomics data, and also may be accessed by external users who want to
compare their own data with those in the databases. The maintenance of the database is
managed centrally. The producers of proteomics data do not need to construct a database
themselves. Users can introduce mass spectra into the database, which allows the searching
of peptide mass fingerprints against their own protein sequence databases. The first release
published in January 2002 contains data from <italic>Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Helicobacter
pylori, Borrelia garinii, Francisella tularensis, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae</italic>,
Jurkat T-cells and mouse mammary gland projects (http://www.mpiib-berlin.
mpg.de/2D-PAGE/).</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Apr; 3(2):97-100