Hmrbase2 - A Database for Hormones and their Receptors

Welcome to the help page of Hmrbase2

This page provides help to the users of Hmrbase2 database on how to efficiently use this repository of salivary biomarkers. For each module which is implemented in Hmrbase2, here we provide the description on how to use that module. The information about the general modules are provided here.

Search Module

Basic Search This module displays the basic search page of Hmrbase2. Clicking on the required field will allow the user to browse the specific information in the database. The "Select Fields to be SEARCHED" section provides options for various keywords through which search can be made in Hmrbase2. The users can select fields to be displayed from the section "Fields to DISPLAY".The users can click on each ID to get all the details regarding the entry.

Advanced Search This page provides the advanced search facility in Hmrbase2. The users can browse the page by selecting multiple fields using AND/OR/NOT operators. This search module allows user to perform search on any or all fields of Hmrbase2. It also allows to DISPLAY all field or user selected fields.

Hormone-receptor pairs This page provides the search facility for finding hormone-receptor pairs in Hmrbase2. The users can find hormone-receptor pairs by searching for hormone name, receptor name, and HMRBase ID. It also provides information on number of receptors present for a particular hormone.

Browse page

Browse by - a) Source Organisms of Peptide Hormones, b) Molecular Weight of Non-Peptide Hormones, c) Source Organism of Hormone Receptors

Tools

BLAST Search This option allows users to search sequences of peptide hormones similar to their query against a database of sequences maintained in Hmrbase2.

Smith Waterman Mapping This page perform local alignmnent and provides similar regions between two strings of sequences of peptide hormones.