Food Allergen
Sequences
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THE ALLERGEN SEQUENCE DATABASE.
To facilitate the use of sequence comparisons in assessing the potential allergenicity of proteins used in foods, three databases of known allergen sequences have been constructed. These databases contain accession numbers for food allergens, non-food allergens, and wheat gluten proteins.
The initial construction of these databases were described in: Gendel, S. 1998. Sequence Databases for Assessing the Potential Allergenicity of Proteins Used in Transgenic Foods. Advances in Food and Nutrition Research 42; 63-92. The databases presented here have been updated from that publication.
The three databases can be accessed at:
THE FOOD ALLERGY VIRTUAL LIBRARY PAGE
The WWW Virtual
Library Page on Food Allergy contains
links to other food allergy resources on the web.
LINKS TO OTHER RESOURCES
The FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) homepage.
The National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST).
The NCFST Food Biotechnology Program.
For further information please contact sgendel@charlie.cns.iit.edu