iPro Class Integrated Protein Knowledgebase
Section: For Industry
Category(ies): Other
Reference #: WUCA422002
OTC Contact: David Humphrey (Directory Information | Send a Message)
Description
The iPro Class database is designed to serve as a framework for data integration, providing rich links to over 50 databases of protein family, function, pathway, interaction, modification, structure, genome, ontology, literature, and taxonomy. In particular, the database is organized with PIRSF family classification and maps to other family, function, and structure classification schemes.
Applications
Applications:
One major challenge lies in the volume, complexity, and dynamic nature of data being collected and maintained in heterogeneous and distributed sources. Advanced bioinformatics infrastructures must be developed for biological knowledge management. To facilitate scientific discovery, information scattered in disparate sources needs to be integrated into a cohesive framework.
Advantages:
With data integration using the iPro Class Knowledgebase, interesting relationship among protein family, structure, and function can be readily revealed, providing for plausible function and pathway identification based on system biology properties even when there is no detectable sequence similarity.
Advantages
Stage of Development
Stage of Development: Fully functional protein database.
Inventors: Cathy Wu, Hongzhan Huang
Relevant Publications
Relevant Publications: Wu et al. The iProClass integrated database for protein functional analysis. Computational Biology and Chemistry 28: 87-96, 2004.
