Scaffold Protein Database (ScaPD)

Scaffold Protein Database (ScaPD)

What is ScaPD?

The ScaPD holds computational and experimental scaffold protein by protein microarrays.The current release of ScaPD contains the predicted 212 scaffold protein,which are involved 605 distinct signaling pathways and 83 experimental scaffold proteins.

Who created the data and maintains ScaPD?

The ScaPD is maintained by the Qian's bioinformatics lab at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

How to cite ScaPD?

The database paper: (in press)

The original data source paper:

Hu J, Neiswinger J, Zhang J, Zhu H, Qian J (2015). Systematic Prediction of Scaffold Proteins Reveals New Design Principles in Scaffold-Mediated Signal Transduction. PLoS Comput Biol.2015 Sep;11(9):e1004508.

How to contact us?

We appreciate your comments and suggestions. For question regarding the bioinformatics analysis and database, you can contact jiang (dot) qian (at) jhmi (dot) edu.