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In-silico human genomics with GeneCards

2011; BioMed Central; Volume: 5; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/1479-7364-5-6-709

1479-7364

Gil Stelzer, Irina Dalah, Tsippi Iny Stein, Yigeal Satanower, Naomi Rosen, Noam Nativ, Danit Oz-Levi, Tsviya Olender, Frida Belinky, Iris Bahir, H Krug, Paul Perco, Bernd Mayer, Eugene Kolker, Marilyn Safran, Doron Lancet,

Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

Since 1998, the bioinformatics, systems biology, genomics and medical communities have enjoyed a synergistic relationship with the GeneCards database of human genes (http://www.genecards.org). This human gene compendium was created to help to introduce order into the increasing chaos of information flow. As a consequence of viewing details and deep links related to specific genes, users have often requested enhanced capabilities, such that, over time, GeneCards has blossomed into a suite of tools (including GeneDecks, GeneALaCart, GeneLoc, GeneNote and GeneAnnot) for a variety of analyses of both single human genes and sets thereof. In this paper, we focus on inhouse and external research activities which have been enabled, enhanced, complemented and, in some cases, motivated by GeneCards. In turn, such interactions have often inspired and propelled improvements in GeneCards. We describe here the evolution and architecture of this project, including examples of synergistic applications in diverse areas such as synthetic lethality in cancer, the annotation of genetic variations in disease, omics integration in a systems biology approach to kidney disease, and bioinformatics tools.