Figure 1.
Schematic overview of the pipeline of data integration in ATDB. All sequence data were downloaded by December 2006. Signal peptide sequences were extracted by an in-house Perl script. Taking these sequences as probes, we searched the NCBI-RefSeq database by BLASTP and filtered by the key word ‘venom gland’ in tissue specificity annotations. Toxin ontology construction and annotation were mainly done manually by trained biologists.