WedescribetheGALT-Protdatabaseanditsrelatedweb-basedapplicationthathavebeendevelopedtocollectinformationaboutthestructuralandfunctionaleffectsofmutationsonthehumanenzymegalactose-1-phosphateuridyltransferase(GALT)involvedinthegeneticdiseasenamedgalactosemiatypeI.Besidesalistofmissensemutationsatgeneandproteinsequencelevels,GALT-ProtreportstheanalysisresultsofmutantGALTstructures.Inadditiontothestructuralinformationaboutthewild-typeenzyme,thedatabasealsoincludesstructuresofover100singlepointmutantssimulatedbymeansofacomputationalprocedure,andtheanalysistoeachmutantwasmadewithseveralbioinformaticsprogramsinordertoinvestigatetheeffectofthemutations.Theweb-basedinterfaceallowsqueryingofthedatabase,andseverallinksarealsoprovidedinordertoguaranteeahighintegrationwithotherresourcesalreadypresentontheweb.Moreover,thearchitectureofthedatabaseandthewebapplicationisflexibleandcanbeeasilyadaptedtostoredatarelatedtootherproteinswithpointmutations.GALT-Protisfreelyavailableathttp://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/GALT/.
