I have created a page on the Development Server that contains information useful in understanding the meaning and format of the various attributes. The report is, for now, restricted to attributes of features and attributes related to drug targets.
At the bottom of the page is a report showing how many of the NMPDR features and how many of the NMPDR Core features have which attributes. The report gives us an idea of which attributes may be practical for use in searching. For example, we have CELLO data on 68% of the NMPDR core features, so it would be reasonable to allow a user to search on or ask for CELLO data if he's restricting his attention to core genomes. On the other hand, we have molecular weight information on 18% of the total features and less than 2% of the core features, so an attempt to search on molecular weight would not provide any useful results.
At this point it looks like the only practical things to add would be the CELLO and CDD attributes. Therefore, I am adding these to the database and they should appear on the Advanced Search Page by the end of the week.
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