Citing the SFLD

Users wishing to cite the SFLD should use the reference:

The Structure-Function Linkage Database
Eyal Akiva, Shoshana Brown, Daniel E. Almonacid, Alan E. Barber 2nd, Ashley F. Custer, Michael A. Hicks, Conrad C. Huang, Florian Lauck, Susan T. Mashiyama, Elaine C. Meng, David Mischel, John H. Morris, Sunil Ojha, Alexandra M. Schnoes, Doug Stryke, Jeffrey M. Yunes, Thomas E. Ferrin, Gemma L. Holliday and Patricia C. Babbitt. Nucleic Acids Res, 42 (D1), D521-D530. 2014. Full Text

A dataset including several of the best-characterized superfamilies in the SFLD has also been published for use as a test set for family and superfamily clustering methods. Note that the corresponding data in the SFLD may have been updated since the publication of this paper.

A gold standard set of mechanistically diverse enzyme superfamilies. Brown SD, Gerlt JA, Seffernick JL, Babbitt PC. Genome Biology, 2006 7(1):R8.

The SFLD is developed by the Babbitt Laboratory (P Babbitt, PI) with support by NIH R01GM60595 and NIGMS U54GM093342, in collaboration with the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics (T Ferrin, PI) with support from NIGMS P41GM103311.