DOCSLIB.ORG

A Resource for RNA Subcellular Localizations

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Resource for RNA Subcellular Localizations Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published August 19, 2016 Nucleic Acids Research, 2016 1 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw728 RNALocate: a resource for RNA subcellular localizations Ting Zhang1,†, Puwen Tan1,†, Liqiang Wang1,†, Nana Jin1,†, Yana Li1, Lin Zhang1, Huan Yang2, Zhenyu Hu1, Lining Zhang1, Chunyu Hu1, Chunhua Li1, Kun Qian1, Changjian Zhang2, Yan Huang1, Kongning Li1,*, Hao Lin2,* and Dong Wang1,3,* 1College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, China, 2Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, Center of Bioinformatics, School of Life Science and Downloaded from Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China and 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou 515041, China Received July 12, 2016; Accepted August 08, 2016 http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/ ABSTRACT gene expression regulation or mitosis etc (4). Thus, the cel- lular role of the RNA after synthesis could be inferred from Increasing evidence has revealed that RNA subcellu- its subcellular localization information. Based on this, sub- lar localization is a very important feature for deeply cellular localization for RNAs plays an important role in understanding RNA’s biological functions after be- studying biological function of RNAs. Therefore, it is ur- ing transported into intra- or extra-cellular regions. gent to construct a database of RNA subcellular localiza- RNALocate is a web-accessible database that aims tion to integrate, analyze and predict RNA subcellular lo- at Bibliotheque Commune De ChimieUNIL - EPFL on November 12, 2016 to provide a high-quality RNA subcellular localiza- calization for speeding up RNA structural and functional tion resource and facilitate future researches on RNA research. function or structure. The current version of RNALo- To complement with related research in RNA subcellu- cate documents more than 37 700 manually curated lar localization, we developed a web-accessible database RNA subcellular localization entries with experimen- (RNALocate, http://www.rna-society.org/rnalocate/), aimed to collect expanding catalog of diverse species’ RNA tal evidence, involving more than 21 800 RNAs with subcellular localization in multiple biological processes 42 subcellular localizations in 65 species, mainly in- by manually curating the literature. The first release of cluding Homo sapiens, Mus musculus and Saccha- RNALocate has contained more than 37 700 manually romyces cerevisiae etc. Besides, RNA homology, se- curated RNA subcellular localization entries with exper- quence and interaction data have also been inte- imental evidence, involving 65 organisms (such as Homo grated into RNALocate. Users can access these data sapiens, Musmusculus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae), 42 through online search, browse, blast and visualiza- subcellular localizations (such as Cytoplasm, Nucleus, tion tools. In conclusion, RNALocate will be of help in Endoplasmic reticulum, Ribosome) and 9 RNA categories elucidating the entirety of RNA subcellular localiza- (such as mRNA, miRNA, lncRNA). Hence, RNALocate tion, and developing new prediction methods. The provides a more specific subcellular localization resource database is available at http://www.rna-society.org/ in which to efficiently investigate, browse and analyze a particular RNA, and even provides insight into the rnalocate/. functions of hypothetical or novel RNAs. The whole data set can be easily queried and downloaded through the INTRODUCTION webpage, and visualization tools for interactively browsing and analyzing the data set are provided. In addition, Biological functions of RNAs, including translation of ge- RNALocate also allows researchers to submit new RNA netic information, cellular signal transduction and tran- subcellular localization. scriptional regulation etc., are determined by their location in cell (1,2). A cell is divided into different compartments that are related to different biological processes (3). For ex- ample, the RNA localized in nuclear usually participates in *To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +86 451 86699584; Fax: +86 451 86699584; Email: [email protected] Correspondence may also be addressed to Hao Lin. Tel: +86 28 83202351; Fax: +86 28 83208238; Email: [email protected] Correspondence may also be addressed to Kongning Li. Tel: +86 451 86615922; Fax: +86 451 86615922; Email: [email protected] †These authors contributed equally to the work as first authors. C The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] 2 Nucleic Acids Research, 2016 Downloaded from http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/ at Bibliotheque Commune De ChimieUNIL - EPFL on November 12, 2016 Figure 1. The overview of the RNALocate database. DATA SOURCES AND IMPLEMENTATION before May 2016. In current version, RNALocate docu- ments 37 772 RNA subcellular localization entries with ex- In order to collect all available RNAs, RNALocate inte- perimental evidence from 65 organisms, involving 42 sub- grates all types of RNA symbols, mainly including mi- cellular localizations (Figure 2) and 9 RNA categories croRNA symbols from the miRBase database (5), long non- (including csRNA, lncRNA, mRNA, miRNA, piRNA, coding RNA (lncRNA) and mRNA symbols from NCBI snRNA, rRNA, snoRNA and tRNA) (Figure 3). Among Gene and Ensemble genome database (6,7). Other ncRNA these, more than 1400 entries were collected from lncR- category names are also included, such as transfer RNA NAdb, PomBase, FlyBase, TAIR and DOT databases. Each and small nuclear RNA from NCBI Gene and Ensemble subcellular localization entry contains detailed informa- genome database (6,7). The list of subcellular localization tion on RNA symbol, RNA category, alias, organism, se- names was collected according to the Gene Ontology (GO) quence, homology, subcellular localization, tissue, valida- (8). We have written a simple script to screen all abstracts tion method, PubMed ID, detailed description and net- and articles in the PubMed database using the following work. keyword combinations: (each RNA symbol or RNA cate- In ‘Submit’ page, RNALocate invites users to upload gory name) and/or (each subcellular localization). The rel- novel RNA subcellular localization data, and in ‘Blast’ evant hits were further inspected manually. Besides, we also page, sequence alignment can be done after parameter se- retrieved several thousand subcellular localization entries lection. Except these, the whole data set could be down- from lncRNAdb (9), PomBase (10), FlyBase (11), TAIR loaded through two approaches: ‘Basic Download’ and (12) and DOT (13) databases (Figure 1). ‘API’ (application programming interface). In ‘Basic Down- The RNALocate database is implemented using HTML load’ page, the whole data are saved in Microsoft Excel and and PHP languages with MySQL server. The interface com- TXT formats, users can get them by clicking the download ponent consists of web pages designed and implemented in button. In ‘API’ page, users can access part of RNALo- HTML/CSS. It has been tested in the Google Chrome, Fire- cate data by using script. RNALocate also provides three fox and Internet Explorer web browsers. options in ‘Help’ page to supply instructions for using it, including ‘Statistics’ (detailed statistical tables), ‘Tutorial’ DATABASE CONTENT (procedure and illustrations of RNALocate) and ‘Sister Databases’. RNA subcellular localization information was manually obtained from articles published in the PubMed database Nucleic Acids Research, 2016 3 Downloaded from http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/ Figure 2. The hierarchical organization and statistics of RNA subcellular localization. at Bibliotheque Commune De ChimieUNIL - EPFL on November 12, 2016 Figure 3. The statistics of RNA category and organism. (A) The percentage of 9 RNA categories in RNALocate database (B) The entry number of 65 organism in RNALocate database, only the organisms with ≥100 entries have been listed, respectively. DATA QUERYING, SEARCHING AND BROWSING ciated information of the RNA, such as organism, subcel- lular localization, alias, sequence, homology and validated RNALocate provides an interface for convenient retrieval method. More than 9200 RNAs with orthology/paralogy of all RNA subcellular localizations. Users can query each from miRBase and Homologene database have been pro- entry through ‘Keyword Search’ in ‘Search’ page. In ‘Key- vided in RNALocate for investigation on RNA subcellular word Search’, 5 paths and relevant examples have been pro- localizations conservation. To further understand the in- vided, including ‘RNA Symbol’, ‘RNA Category’, ‘Sub- teraction information between different RNAs in various celllular localization’, ‘Organism’ and ‘Other ID (miRBase types of subcellular localizations online, a ‘Network’ option ID/Entrez ID)’. has also been provided to visualize RNA interaction net- RNALocate provides brief details of search results as work with subcellular localization and organism (14,15). a table in the ‘Search Result’ page, while more detailed In ‘Browse’ page, users can access RNALocate in three descriptions
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: ​Fundamental Infrastructure for The
    Supplementary Data: The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure ​ for the life sciences The “Supporting Material” referred to within this Supplementary Data can be found in the Supporting.Material.CDR.infrastructure file, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2625247 (https://zenodo.org/record/2625247). ​ ​ Figure 1. Scale of the Core Data Resources Table S1. Data from which Figure 1 is derived: Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Data entries 765881651 997794559 1726529931 1853429002 2715599247 Monthly user/IP addresses 1700660 2109586 2413724 2502617 2867265 FTEs 270 292.65 295.65 289.7 311.2 Figure 1 includes data from the following Core Data Resources: ArrayExpress, BRENDA, CATH, ChEBI, ChEMBL, EGA, ENA, Ensembl, Ensembl Genomes, EuropePMC, HPA, IntAct /MINT , InterPro, PDBe, PRIDE, SILVA, STRING, UniProt ● Note that Ensembl’s compute infrastructure physically relocated in 2016, so “Users/IP address” data are not available for that year. In this case, the 2015 numbers were rolled forward to 2016. ● Note that STRING makes only minor releases in 2014 and 2016, in that the interactions are re-computed, but the number of “Data entries” remains unchanged. The major releases that change the number of “Data entries” happened in 2013 and 2015. So, for “Data entries” , the number for 2013 was rolled forward to 2014, and the number for 2015 was rolled forward to 2016. The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences ​ 1 Figure 2: Usage of Core Data Resources in research The following steps were taken: 1. API calls were run on open access full text articles in Europe PMC to identify articles that ​ ​ mention Core Data Resource by name or include specific data record accession numbers.
    [Show full text]
  • What Remains to Be Discovered in the Eukaryotic Proteome?
    bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/469569; this version posted November 16, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. Hidden in plain sight: What remains to be discovered in the eukaryotic proteome? Valerie Wood∗1,2, Antonia Lock3, Midori A. Harris1,2, Kim Rutherford1,2, J¨urgB¨ahler3, and Stephen G. Oliver1,2 1Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 3Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK November 12, 2018 Abstract The first decade of genome sequencing stimulated an explosion in the charac- terization of unknown proteins. More recently, the pace of functional discovery has slowed, leaving around 20% of the proteins even in well-studied model or- ganisms without informative descriptions of their biological roles. Remarkably, many uncharacterized proteins are conserved from yeasts to human, suggesting that they contribute to fundamental biological processes. To fully understand biological systems in health and disease, we need to account for every part of the system. Unstudied proteins thus represent a collective blind spot that limits the progress of both basic and applied biosciences. We use a simple yet powerful metric based on Gene Ontology (GO) bio- logical process terms to define characterized and uncharacterized proteins for human, budding yeast, and fission yeast. We then identify a set of conserved but unstudied proteins in S.
    [Show full text]
  • NCBI Databases
    Jon K. Lærdahl, Structural Bioinforma�cs NCBI databases Read this ar�cle! Nucleic Acids 43 Res. , D6 (2015) Jon K. Lærdahl, EMBL-­‐EBI databases Structural Bioinforma�cs European Nucleo�de Archive (ENA) nucleo�de sequence database Ensembl -­‐ automa�c and manually curated annota�on on selected eukaryo�c (vertebrate) genomes Ensembl Genomes – Ensembl for “all other organisms” UniProt – protein sequence and func�onal informa�on ChEMBL – database of bioac�ve compounds IntAct -­‐ repository of molecular interac�ons, including protein-­‐protein, protein-­‐small molecule and protein-­‐nucleic acid interac�ons CiteXplore – 25 million literature abstracts including PubMed, Agricola & patents Gene Ontology (GO) -­‐ controlled vocabulary to describe gene and gene product a�ributes in any organism Gene Ontology Annota�on (GOA) – GO annota�ons for proteins in UniProt All data is publicly available Jon K. Lærdahl, Structural Bioinforma�cs GenBank a comprehensive public database of nucleo�de sequences and suppor�ng bibliographic and biological annota�on all publicly available DNA sequences submissions from authors – web-­‐based BankIt – standalone program Sequin submissions from EST and other high-­‐throughput sequencing projects daily exchange of data with ENA and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) – all sequences submi�ed to DDBJ, ENA, or GenBank will end up in all 3 databases within few days Jon K. Lærdahl, Structural Bioinforma�cs INSDC Jon K. Lærdahl, Structural Bioinforma�cs Sequin – for submi�ng to GenBank BankIt is web-­‐ based alterna�ve Link to “Create a submission” Jon K. Lærdahl, Structural Bioinforma�cs Entry in GenBank format Oct 2015: 202,237,081,559 bases in 188,372,017 sequence records in the tradi�onal GenBank divisions 1,222,635,267,498 bases in 309,198,943 sequence records in the WGS Jon K.
    [Show full text]
  • The Biogrid Interaction Database
    D470–D478 Nucleic Acids Research, 2015, Vol. 43, Database issue Published online 26 November 2014 doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1204 The BioGRID interaction database: 2015 update Andrew Chatr-aryamontri1, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz2, Rose Oughtred3, Lorrie Boucher2, Sven Heinicke3, Daici Chen1, Chris Stark2, Ashton Breitkreutz2, Nadine Kolas2, Lara O’Donnell2, Teresa Reguly2, Julie Nixon4, Lindsay Ramage4, Andrew Winter4, Adnane Sellam5, Christie Chang3, Jodi Hirschman3, Chandra Theesfeld3, Jennifer Rust3, Michael S. Livstone3, Kara Dolinski3 and Mike Tyers1,2,4,* 1Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Universite´ de Montreal,´ Montreal,´ Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada, 2The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada, 3Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, 4School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JR, UK and 5Centre Hospitalier de l’UniversiteLaval´ (CHUL), Quebec,´ Quebec´ G1V 4G2, Canada Received September 26, 2014; Revised November 4, 2014; Accepted November 5, 2014 ABSTRACT semi-automated text-mining approaches, and to en- hance curation quality control. The Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID: http://thebiogrid.org) is an open access database that houses genetic and protein in- INTRODUCTION teractions curated from the primary biomedical lit- Massive increases in high-throughput DNA sequencing erature for all major model organism species and technologies (1) have enabled an unprecedented level of humans. As of September 2014, the BioGRID con- genome annotation for many hundreds of species (2–6), tains 749 912 interactions as drawn from 43 149 pub- which has led to tremendous progress in the understand- lications that represent 30 model organisms.
    [Show full text]
  • Biocuration 2016 - Posters
    Biocuration 2016 - Posters Source: http://www.sib.swiss/events/biocuration2016/posters 1 RAM: A standards-based database for extracting and analyzing disease-specified concepts from the multitude of biomedical resources Jinmeng Jia and Tieliu Shi Each year, millions of people around world suffer from the consequence of the misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment of various disease, especially those intractable diseases and rare diseases. Integration of various data related to human diseases help us not only for identifying drug targets, connecting genetic variations of phenotypes and understanding molecular pathways relevant to novel treatment, but also for coupling clinical care and biomedical researches. To this end, we built the Rare disease Annotation & Medicine (RAM) standards-based database which can provide reference to map and extract disease-specified information from multitude of biomedical resources such as free text articles in MEDLINE and Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). RAM integrates disease-specified concepts from ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT and MeSH (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html) extracted from the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) based on the UMLS Concept Unique Identifiers for each Disease Term. We also integrated phenotypes from OMIM for each disease term, which link underlying mechanisms and clinical observation. Moreover, we used disease-manifestation (D-M) pairs from existing biomedical ontologies as prior knowledge to automatically recognize D-M-specific syntactic patterns from full text articles in MEDLINE. Considering that most of the record-based disease information in public databases are textual format, we extracted disease terms and their related biomedical descriptive phrases from Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) and Orphanet using UMLS Thesaurus.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Scientific Report 2011 Annual Scientific Report 2011 Designed and Produced by Pickeringhutchins Ltd
    European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI Annual Scientific Report 2011 Annual Scientific Report 2011 Designed and Produced by PickeringHutchins Ltd www.pickeringhutchins.com EMBL member states: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Associate member state: Australia EMBL-EBI is a part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) EMBL-EBI EMBL-EBI EMBL-EBI EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)1223 494 444, Fax +44 (0)1223 494 468 www.ebi.ac.uk EMBL Heidelberg Meyerhofstraße 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany Tel. +49 (0)6221 3870, Fax +49 (0)6221 387 8306 www.embl.org [email protected] EMBL Grenoble 6, rue Jules Horowitz, BP181 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9 France Tel. +33 (0)476 20 7269, Fax +33 (0)476 20 2199 EMBL Hamburg c/o DESY Notkestraße 85 22603 Hamburg Germany Tel. +49 (0)4089 902 110, Fax +49 (0)4089 902 149 EMBL Monterotondo Adriano Buzzati-Traverso Campus Via Ramarini, 32 00015 Monterotondo (Rome) Italy Tel. +39 (0)6900 91402, Fax +39 (0)6900 91406 © 2012 EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute All texts written by EBI-EMBL Group and Team Leaders. This publication was produced by the EBI’s Outreach and Training Programme. Contents Introduction Foreword 2 Major Achievements 2011 4 Services Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney: Protein and nucleotide data 10 Guy Cochrane: The European Nucleotide Archive 14 Paul Flicek:
    [Show full text]
  • Uniprot.Ws: R Interface to Uniprot Web Services
    Package ‘UniProt.ws’ September 26, 2021 Type Package Title R Interface to UniProt Web Services Version 2.33.0 Depends methods, utils, RSQLite, RCurl, BiocGenerics (>= 0.13.8) Imports AnnotationDbi, BiocFileCache, rappdirs Suggests RUnit, BiocStyle, knitr Description A collection of functions for retrieving, processing and repackaging the UniProt web services. Collate AllGenerics.R AllClasses.R getFunctions.R methods-select.R utilities.R License Artistic License 2.0 biocViews Annotation, Infrastructure, GO, KEGG, BioCarta VignetteBuilder knitr LazyLoad yes git_url https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/UniProt.ws git_branch master git_last_commit 5062003 git_last_commit_date 2021-05-19 Date/Publication 2021-09-26 Author Marc Carlson [aut], Csaba Ortutay [ctb], Bioconductor Package Maintainer [aut, cre] Maintainer Bioconductor Package Maintainer <[email protected]> R topics documented: UniProt.ws-objects . .2 UNIPROTKB . .4 utilities . .8 Index 11 1 2 UniProt.ws-objects UniProt.ws-objects UniProt.ws objects and their related methods and functions Description UniProt.ws is the base class for interacting with the Uniprot web services from Bioconductor. In much the same way as an AnnotationDb object allows acces to select for many other annotation packages, UniProt.ws is meant to allow usage of select methods and other supporting methods to enable the easy extraction of data from the Uniprot web services. select, columns and keys are used together to extract data via an UniProt.ws object. columns shows which kinds of data can be returned for the UniProt.ws object. keytypes allows the user to discover which keytypes can be passed in to select or keys via the keytype argument. keys returns keys for the database contained in the UniProt.ws object .
    [Show full text]
  • Unexpected Insertion of Carrier DNA Sequences Into the Fission Yeast Genome During CRISPR–Cas9 Mediated Gene Deletion
    Longmuir et al. BMC Res Notes (2019) 12:191 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4228-x BMC Research Notes RESEARCH NOTE Open Access Unexpected insertion of carrier DNA sequences into the fssion yeast genome during CRISPR–Cas9 mediated gene deletion Sophie Longmuir, Nabihah Akhtar and Stuart A. MacNeill* Abstract Objectives: The fssion yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is predicted to encode ~ 200 proteins of < 100 amino acids, including a number of previously uncharacterised proteins that are found conserved in related Schizosaccharomyces species only. To begin an investigation of the function of four of these so-called microproteins (designated Smp1– Smp4), CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing technology was used to delete the corresponding genes in haploid fssion yeast cells. Results: None of the four microprotein-encoding genes was essential for viability, meiosis or sporulation, and the deletion cells were no more sensitive to a range of cell stressors than wild-type, leaving the function of the proteins unresolved. During CRISPR–Cas9 editing however, a number of strains were isolated in which additional sequences were inserted into the target loci at the Cas9 cut site. Sequencing of the inserts revealed these to be derived from the chum salmon Oncorhynchus keta, the source of the carrier DNA used in the S. pombe transformation. Keywords: Microprotein, Fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Oncorhynchus keta, CRISPR–Cas9 Introduction Te results presented here arose out of a project to Microproteins (also known as SEPs for smORF-encoded investigate the function of four unstudied S. pombe peptides) are small (generally < 100 amino acid) proteins microproteins, designated Smp1–Smp4 (see Table 1 for that are increasingly being implicated in a wide range of systematic IDs).
    [Show full text]
  • Exploring the Development and Maintenance Practices in the Gene Ontology
    Wu, S., & Stvilia, B. (2014). Exploring the Development and Maintenance Practices in the Gene Ontology. Advances In Classification Research Online, 24(1). doi:10.7152/acro.v24i1.14675 Exploring the Development and Maintenance Practices in the Gene Ontology Shuheng Wu Besiki Stvilia [email protected] [email protected] School of Library & Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-2100, United States ABSTRACT research. Among many of the current bio-ontologies, the The Gene Ontology (GO) is one of the most widely used Gene Ontology (GO) is one of the most successful, and has and successful bio-ontologies in biomedicine and molecular been widely used for text mining and information extraction biology. What is special about GO as a knowledge (Blaschke, Hirschman, & Valencia, 2002; Kelso, organization (KO) system is its collaborative development Hoehndorf, & Prüfer, 2010). and maintenance practices, involving diverse communities in collectively developing the Ontology and controlling its Founded in 1998, GO consists of three ontologies quality. Guided by Activity Theory and a theoretical describing the cellular components (CC), molecular Information Quality Assessment Framework, this study functions (MF), and biological processes (BP) of genes and conducts qualitative content analysis of GO’s curation gene products in a species-neutral manner, and intends to discussions. The study found that GO has developed provide each gene and gene product with a cellular context various tools and mechanisms to gain expert feedback and (Gene Ontology, 2013a; Gene Ontology Consortium, engage various communities in developing and maintaining 2011). GO is open access, and the ontology data can be the Ontology in an efficient and less expensive way.
    [Show full text]
  • Pombase: a Comprehensive Online Resource for Fission Yeast Valerie Wood1,2,3,*, Midori A
    Published online 28 October 2011 Nucleic Acids Research, 2012, Vol. 40, Database issue D695–D699 doi:10.1093/nar/gkr853 PomBase: a comprehensive online resource for fission yeast Valerie Wood1,2,3,*, Midori A. Harris1,2,*, Mark D. McDowall4, Kim Rutherford1,2, Brendan W. Vaughan4, Daniel M. Staines4, Martin Aslett5, Antonia Lock6, Ju¨rg Ba¨ hler6, Paul J. Kersey4 and Stephen G. Oliver1,2,* 1Cambridge Systems Biology Centre, 2Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Sanger Building, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, 3Cell Cycle Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-abstract/40/D1/D695/2903446 by guest on 10 March 2019 Institute, 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London UK WC2A 3LY, 4European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SD, 5Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA and 6Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK Received September 7, 2011; Accepted September 24, 2011 ABSTRACT stress responses, chromatin and gene regulation and meiotic differentiation (1). Moreover, since the completion PomBase (www.pombase.org) is a new model of its genome sequence in 2002 (2), fission yeast has organism database established to provide access emerged as a prime model for the characterization of to comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date mo- processes relevant to human disease and cell biology. A lecular data and biological information for the large and active community engages in biological and bio- fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe to ef- medical research using this model system, routinely fectively support both exploratory and hypothesis- applying molecular genetic, cell biological and biochem- driven research.
    [Show full text]
  • Contributing to the Uniprot Knowledgebase - How You Can Help
    Contributing to the UniProt Knowledgebase - how you can help Cecilia Arighi, PhD PIR team lead UniProt [email protected] 1 Outline v UniProt Overview v UniProt curated and additional publications v Community contribution: Why? What is the benefit? v Your personal researcher identifier v Publication submission and review processes v What happens after submission v Examples and demo 2 The Universal Protein Resource www.uniprot.org Comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information 3 Resources we provide >500K unique visitors per month BLAST SEQUENCE ID MAPPING PEPTIDE Tools: ALIGNMENT SEARCH PROGRAMATIC DOWNLOADS ACCESS https://www.uniprot.org 4 The knowledgebase UniProtKB • high quality expert curation • non-redundant (1 entry/gene/species) • cross-references in every Reviewed entry (Swiss-Prot) • automatic annotation • sequence redundancy allowed • computationally generated Unreviewed • cross-references in every (TrEMBL) entry Release 2020_02 5 Types of data in a UniProtKB entry Functional Names comprehensive annotation standardized Sequences Identifiers isoforms unique, staBle variants, etc Links to Amino acid- specialized speciFic data databases 6 Literature Annotations Expert UniProtKB organized in topics in curation curation Entry Entry view CLDN1 - Claudin-1 - Homo sapiens (Human) - CLDN1 gene & protein http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/O95832 UniProtKB - O95832 (CLD1_HUMAN) Protein Claudin-1 Gene CLDN1 Organism Homo sapiens (Human) Status s Reviewed - Annotation score: - Experimental evidence at protein level Function Claudins function as major constituents of the tight junction complexes that regulate the permeability of epithelia. While some claudin family members play essential roles in the formation of impermeable barriers, others mediate the permeability to ions and small molecules.
    [Show full text]
  • Pombase Anatomy of the Main Page
    Anatomy of the PomBase Main page PomBase (www.PomBase.org, funded by the Wellcome Trust) is the model organism database for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Its primary goal is to support exploratory and hypothesis-driven research and to promote and support the use of fission yeast as a model eukaryotic system. PomBase integrates the S. pombe genome sequence with genetic, molecular and cell biological data, and provides tools to interrogate these data. A longer term goal of PomBase is to provide a detailed and comprehensive networked model of a eukaryotic cell. The front page of PomBase showcases fission yeast research (research spotlight and community curation), and other news of interest to the community. The frontpage provides access to all areas of PomBase as indicated by the numbers in the image below. 1 - the ‘simple search’ box. Search for: ● S. pombe gene names, or genes orthologous to human or S. cerevisiae genes by ortholog name ● Annotations from specific publications by searching for the PubMed ID ● Annotations to specific terms in ontologies (e.g. the Gene Ontology GO, or the fission yeast phenotype ontology FYPO) 2 - The website navigation menu. Comprised of the following sections: ➢ Search Links to the advanced search (query builder), peptide motif search and genome browser ➢ Submit Links to instructions for contributing data to PomBase ➢ Genome status Links to a gene annotation overview (the GO slim overview) and curation statistics, genome relevant information (sequence status, updates, statistics and coordinate changes), and a list of ‘priority unstudied genes’ (genes with orthologs in vertebrates not characterized in any species) ➢ Downloads Datasets (e.g.
    [Show full text]