Scientist create a database for scorpion venom
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 06:31
in Biology & Nature
Employees at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBCh RAS) have created Kalium, a database for peptide toxins from scorpion venom. It enables scientists to systematize information on the molecules that block potassium channels. In addition, the database is a useful tool for conducting further studies on the channels themselves, which are today considered as pharmacological targets for certain autoimmunological and neurodegenerative diseases. They have published the results of their work in Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.