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ABCD

General information

URL: https://web.expasy.org/abcd
Full name: AntiBodies Chemically Defined
Description: The ABCD database is a repository of sequenced antibodies, integrating curated information about the antibody and its antigen with cross-links to standardized databases of chemical and protein entities.
Year founded: 2020
Last update: 2019-10-01
Version: v.5.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: Switzerland

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Contact information

University/Institution: University of Geneva
Address: University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
City: Geneva
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Country/Region: Switzerland
Contact name (PI/Team): Wanessa C Lima
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): wanessa.delima@unige.ch

Publications

31410491
The ABCD database: a repository for chemically defined antibodies. [PMID: 31410491]
Lima WC, Gasteiger E, Marcatili P, Duek P, Bairoch A, Cosson P.

The ABCD (for AntiBodies Chemically Defined) database is a repository of sequenced antibodies, integrating curated information about the antibody and its antigen with cross-links to standardized databases of chemical and protein entities. It is freely available to the academic community, accessible through the ExPASy server (https://web.expasy.org/abcd/). The ABCD database aims at helping to improve reproducibility in academic research by providing a unique, unambiguous identifier associated to each antibody sequence. It also allows to determine rapidly if a sequenced antibody is available for a given antigen.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2020:48(D1) | 33 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-20)

Ranking

All databases:
2020/6895 (70.718%)
Structure:
281/967 (71.044%)
Interaction:
399/1194 (66.667%)
Health and medicine:
504/1738 (71.059%)
2020
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32
Citations
6.4
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Created on: 2019-10-27
Curated by:
Yue Qi [2023-09-14]
Shoaib Saleem [2019-11-24]
Amjad Ali [2019-10-27]