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BPS

General information

URL: http://bps.rutgers.edu/bps/
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Description: BPS is a database of RNA base pairs with quantitative information on the spatial arrangements of interacting bases, including higher-order base associations, and the context of these interactions in high-resolution crystal structures.
Year founded: 2009
Last update:
Version: v1.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United States

Classification & Tag

Data type:
RNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: Rutgers University
Address: 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway,NJ 08854, USA
City: Piscataway
Province/State: NJ
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Wilma K. Olson
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): wilma.olson@rutgers.edu

Publications

18845572
BPS: a database of RNA base-pair structures. [PMID: 18845572]
Xin Y, Olson WK.

The BPS (http://bps.rutgers.edu) is a database of RNA base-pair structures, higher-order base interactions and isosteric pairs (base pairs with similar shape). The main functions of the BPS are to find and annotate the structural and chemical features of the Watson-Crick and non-Watson-Crick (noncanonical) base pairs in high-resolution RNA structures, and to provide a user-friendly interface to browse and search for the base pairs. The current database contains 91,265 bp and 3386 higher-order base interactions from 426 RNA crystal structures and 61,819 bp that fall into one of 17 different isosteric classes. The base-pair data can be accessed by searches of base-pair patterns, structure identifiers (IDs) and structural types. The BPS also includes an Atlas with representative images of the various base pairs, higher-order base interactions and isosteric pairs and links to statistical information about these groups of structures.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2009:37(Database issue) | 29 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-20)

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4353/6895 (36.882%)
Structure:
612/967 (36.815%)
4353
Total Rank
28
Citations
1.75
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Created on: 2015-07-18
Curated by:
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