Helmberg Wolfgang, Dunivin Raymond, Feolo Michael
National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Building 45, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32(Web Server issue):W173-5. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh424.
The dbMHC resource (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mhc/sbt.cgi?cmd=main) at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) has developed an online tool for evaluating the allelic composition of sequencing-based typing (SBT) results of cDNA or genomic sequences. Whether the samples are heterozygous, haploid or a combination of the two, they can be compared with two up-to-date databases of all known alleles of several human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) loci. The results of the submission are returned as a table of potential allele hits, along with the respective base changes and an interactive sequence viewer for close examination of the alignment.