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SNOW: standard nomenclature wizard to help searching for (bio) chemical standardized names
Daniel Aguilar1, Baldomero Oliva, Francesc X Aviles
1Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina and Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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When developing bioinformatical tools dealing with enzymatic activity, metabolism or enzymatic networks, the problem of the lack of a clear nomenclature for biochemical compounds often arises. This problem leads us to develop a small web-based tool (SNOW, Standard NOmenclature Wizard) which may help to find recommended and trivial names or the correct closest spelling for a query compound name, if it exists.
Availability:
Web-based interface available at http://ibb.uab.es/snow/
Supplementary Information:
http://ibb.uab.es/snow/snow_moreinfo.html
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