Screening of transgenic proteins expressed in transgenic food crops for the presence of short amino acid sequences identical to potential, IgE – binding linear epitopes of allergens

Table 3 Allergen Databases on the Internet

Name	Webadress	Allergen type	Information
Agmobiol	http://ambl.lsc.pku.edu.cn	Food, pollen	Protein databank accessions, literature references
CSL	http://www.csl.gov.uk/allergen (free registration required)	All	Protein databank accessions, epitopes literature references
Farrp	http://www.allergenonline.com (free registration required)	All	Protein databank accessions of 658 allergens
NCFST	http://www.iit.edu/~sgendel/fa.htm	All, plus coeliac	Protein databank accessions
Protall	http://www.ifr.bbsrc.ac.uk/protall	Plant	Protein databank accessions, biochemical and clinical data
SDAP	http://129.109.73.75/SDAP/	All	Protein databank accessions, allergenic protein sequences, search facility for identical and similar peptide sequences¹
SwissProt	http://us.expasy.org/cgi-bin/lists?allergen.txt	All	Protein databank accessions
WHO/IUIS	http://www.allergen.org	All	Nomenclature, protein databank accessions

¹ The SDAP database and the peptide similarity search algorithm are described by Ivanciuc et al. [24]

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