CHD@ZJU: A knowledgebase providing network-based research platform on coronary heart disease

Leihong Wu, Xiang Li, Jihong Yang, Yufeng Liu, Xiaohui Fan, Yiyu Cheng

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Abstract

Coronary heart disease (CHD), the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality in adults, has been reported to be associated with hundreds of genes. A comprehensive understanding of the CHD-related genes and their corresponding interactions is essential to advance the translational research on CHD. Accordingly, we construct this knowledgebase, CHD@ZJU, which records CHD-related information (genes, pathways, drugs and references) collected from different resources and through text-mining method followed by manual confirmation. In current release, CHD@ZJU contains 660 CHD-related genes, 45 common pathways and 1405 drugs accompanied with >8000 supporting references. Almost half of the genes collected in CHD@ZJU were novel to other publicly available CHD databases. Additionally, CHD@ZJU incorporated the protein-protein interactions to investigate the cross-talk within the pathways from a multi-layer network view. These functions offered by CHD@ZJU would allow researchers to dissect the molecular mechanism of CHD in a systematic manner and therefore facilitate the research on CHD-related multi-target therapeutic discovery.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberbat047
JournalDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation
Volume2013
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

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