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Title: | Consistency, comprehensiveness, and compatibility of pathway databases | Authors: | Soh, D. Dong, D. Guo, Y. Wong, L. |
Issue Date: | 2010 | Citation: | Soh, D., Dong, D., Guo, Y., Wong, L. (2010). Consistency, comprehensiveness, and compatibility of pathway databases. BMC Bioinformatics 11. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-11-449 | Abstract: | Background: It is necessary to analyze microarray experiments together with biological information to make better biological inferences. We investigate the adequacy of current biological databases to address this need.Description: Our results show a low level of consistency, comprehensiveness and compatibility among three popular pathway databases (KEGG, Ingenuity and Wikipathways). The level of consistency for genes in similar pathways across databases ranges from 0% to 88%. The corresponding level of consistency for interacting genes pairs is 0%-61%. These three original sources can be assumed to be reliable in the sense that the interacting gene pairs reported in them are correct because they are curated. However, the lack of concordance between these databases suggests each source has missed out many genes and interacting gene pairs.Conclusions: Researchers will hence find it challenging to obtain consistent pathway information out of these diverse data sources. It is therefore critical to enable them to access these sources via a consistent, comprehensive and unified pathway API. We accumulated sufficient data to create such an aggregated resource with the convenience of an API to access its information. This unified resource can be accessed at http://www.pathwayapi.com. © 2010 Soh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. | Source Title: | BMC Bioinformatics | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/38870 | ISSN: | 14712105 | DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2105-11-449 |
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