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The Rat Genome Database curation tool suite: a set of optimized software tools enabling efficient acquisition, organization, and presentation of biological data. Database (Oxford) 2011;2011:bar002

Date

02/16/2011

Pubmed ID

21321022

Pubmed Central ID

PMC3041158

DOI

10.1093/database/bar002

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-79956225148 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   12 Citations

Abstract

The Rat Genome Database (RGD) is the premier repository of rat genomic and genetic data and currently houses over 40,000 rat gene records as well as human and mouse orthologs, 1771 rat and 1911 human quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and 2209 rat strains. Biological information curated for these data objects includes disease associations, phenotypes, pathways, molecular functions, biological processes and cellular components. A suite of tools has been developed to aid curators in acquiring and validating data objects, assigning nomenclature, attaching biological information to objects and making connections among data types. The software used to assign nomenclature, to create and edit objects and to make annotations to the data objects has been specifically designed to make the curation process as fast and efficient as possible. The user interfaces have been adapted to the work routines of the curators, creating a suite of tools that is intuitive and powerful. Database URL: http://rgd.mcw.edu.

Author List

Laulederkind SJ, Shimoyama M, Hayman GT, Lowry TF, Nigam R, Petri V, Smith JR, Wang SJ, de Pons J, Kowalski G, Liu W, Rood W, Munzenmaier DH, Dwinell MR, Twigger SN, Jacob HJ, RGD Team

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
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
Databases, Genetic
Genome
Humans
Mice
Molecular Sequence Annotation
Quantitative Trait Loci
Rats
Software