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A Primer for the Rat Genome Database (RGD). Methods Mol Biol 2018;1757:163-209

Date

05/16/2018

Pubmed ID

29761460

Pubmed Central ID

PMC6487669

DOI

10.1007/978-1-4939-7737-6_8

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85047123695 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   11 Citations

Abstract

The laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus, is an important model of human health and disease, and experimental findings in the rat have relevance to human physiology and disease. The Rat Genome Database (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu ) is a model organism database that provides access to a wide variety of curated rat data including disease associations, phenotypes, pathways, molecular functions, biological processes and cellular components for genes, quantitative trait loci, and strains. We present an overview of the database followed by specific examples that can be used to gain experience in employing RGD to explore the wealth of functional data available for the rat.

Author List

Laulederkind SJF, Hayman GT, Wang SJ, Smith JR, Petri V, Hoffman MJ, De Pons J, Tutaj MA, Ghiasvand O, Tutaj M, Thota J, Dwinell MR, Shimoyama M

Authors

Melinda R. Dwinell PhD Associate Dean, Professor in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Stanley J. Laulederkind Research Scientist II in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Monika Tutaj Research Scientist II in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Shur-Jen Wang Research Scientist II in the Physiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Animals
Computational Biology
Data Mining
Databases, Genetic
Gene Ontology
Genome
Genomics
Phenotype
Quantitative Trait Loci
Rats
Search Engine
Software
User-Computer Interface
Web Browser