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InterMOD: integrated data and tools for the unification of model organism research
- Source :
- Scientific Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Nature Publishing Group, 2013.
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Abstract
- Model organisms are widely used for understanding basic biology and have significantly contributed to the study of human disease. In recent years, genomic analysis has provided extensive evidence of widespread conservation of gene sequence and function amongst eukaryotes, allowing insights from model organisms to help decipher gene function in a wider range of species. The InterMOD consortium is developing an infrastructure based around the InterMine data warehouse system to integrate genomic and functional data from a number of key model organisms, leading the way to improved cross-species research. So far including budding yeast, nematode worm, fruit fly, zebrafish, rat and mouse, the project has set up data warehouses, synchronized data models and created analysis tools and links between data from different species. The project unites a number of major model organism databases, improving both the consistency and accessibility of comparative research, to the benefit of the wider scientific community.
- Subjects :
- Unification
Databases, Factual
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Biology
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Article
Data modeling
03 medical and health sciences
Consistency (database systems)
0302 clinical medicine
Comparative research
Databases, Genetic
Animals
Function (engineering)
Model organism
030304 developmental biology
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0303 health sciences
Multidisciplinary
Genome
Models, Genetic
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Genomics
Data science
Data warehouse
DECIPHER
Data mining
computer
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0bf694e34938d79d154812dc240cd0d1