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Elser JJ, Acquisti C & Kumar S (2011) Stoichiogenomics: the evolutionary ecology of macromolecular elemental composition. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 26:38-44 PDF

Acquisti CA, Kumar S & Elser JJ (2009) Signatures of nitrogen limitation in the elemental composition of the proteins involved in the metabolic apparatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 276:2605-2610 PDF

Acquisti CA, Elser JJ & Kumar S (2009) Ecological nitrogen-limitation shapes the DNA composition of plant genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26:953-956 PDF

Elser JJ, Fagan WF, Subramanian S & Kumar S (2006) Signatures of ecological resource availability in the animal and plant proteomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23:1946-1951 PDF

Genomics Resource Access for Stoichio-Proteomics
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The following table shows the values used in our calculations [the ambiguous (Asparagine or aspartic acid :B, Glutamine or glutamic acid :Z, Leucine or Isoleucine: J, Unspecified: X ) and non-standard amino acids (pyrrolysine:O and selenocysteine:U) are not included in the our calculations]:

NAME Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen Oxygen Sulfur
Alanine 1 3 0 0 0
Arginine 4 10 3 0 0
Asparagine 2 4 1 1 0
Aspartic acid 2 3 0 2 0
Cysteine 1 3 0 0 1
Glutamic acid 3 5 0 2 0
Glutamine 3 6 1 1 0
Glycine 0 1 0 0 0
Histidine 4 5 2 0 0
Isoleucine 4 9 0 0 0
Leucine 4 9 0 0 0
Lysine 4 10 1 0 0
Methionine 3 7 0 0 1
Phenylalanine 7 7 0 0 0
Proline 3 6 0 0 0
Serine 1 3 0 1 0
Threonine 2 5 0 1 0
Tryptophan 9 8 1 0 0
Tyrosine 7 7 0 1 0
Valine 3 7 0 0 0

Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_standard_amino_acids

What is your source of Drosophila protein sequence information? 
The sequence data is derived from Flybase version FB_2007_3, October 2007

What is your source of protein-grouping data (Molecular Function, Biological Process, Pathway and Family)? 
The data is derived from http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu/ (FLYBASE), http://www.pantherdb.org/  and http://www.pir.uniprot.org/

Why do certain protein IDs appear in GRASP with multiple suffixes?
When a gene gives rise to more than one protein product, each protein product is indicated with a different suffix (ie:  PA, PB , etc). We observed that in some cases, two protein products coded by the same gene may show an identical amino acid sequence, but different IDs (eg: CG12428-PA and CG12428-PB). This typically happens when different transcript products of the same gene code for identical protein products.

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