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Curating the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database : a knowledge and discovery environment for chemical-gene-disease associations. Allan Peter Davis Scientific Curator The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Salisbury Cove, Maine. GENES. DNA Repair. Cell Cycle Control. Phenotype.
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Curating the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database:a knowledge and discovery environment for chemical-gene-disease associations Allan Peter Davis Scientific Curator The Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Salisbury Cove, Maine
GENES DNA Repair Cell Cycle Control Phenotype Environment Cell Death/ Differentiation Distribution/ Metabolism CHEMICAL DISEASE Chemical exposure is a significant environmental factor for health DISEASE
Chemicals 59,000 Genes >30,000 Diseases 20,000 Papers 80,000 Discover information CTD facilitates knowledge and discovery by integrating data http://ctd.mdibl.org
Curating the chemical-gene-disease triad C chemical-gene interactions chemical-disease associations G gene-disease associations
Curating the chemical-gene-disease triad CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES C MeSH chemical-gene interactions chemical-disease associations 65 2 Entrez-Taxon G gene-disease associations Entrez-Gene 2 MeSH
Analog Metabolite Increase Decrease No effect Binds Activity Expression Transport - Uptake - Import - Secretion - Export Metabolic processing - Degradation - Chemical synthesis - Methylation - Oxidation - Phosphorylation - Ubiquitination plus lots more… Protein DNA - promoter - enhancer - exon - intron mRNA - 5’ UTR - 3’ UTR - polyA tail Modified form Alternative form Mutant form - polymorphism - SNP Species Curating the chemical-gene branch C G
Curating the disease branch: 2 sources C Mechanism / marker Therapeutic / target G 1. 2.
User-friendly query pages Query for Chemicals, Genes, Interactions, Diseases, or References each query page can be refined with additional parameters Q: what enzymes have their expression affected by cadmium exposure?
GENE: Basic Information tab Data tabs
GENE: Chemicals tab Sort columns by clicking on headers Ranked by number of curated interactions
Download results onto desktop GENE: Interactions tab Sort columns by clicking on headers
ABCB11 CHOLESTASIS GENE: Disease tab Direct gene- disease association
GENE: Disease tab Discover novel, putative disease connections ABCB11 Estradiol PROSTATE CANCER Estradiol inferred
G C C G C G Discover putative chemical-gene-disease networks 738 chemicals linked to LUNG CANCER via gene intermediate 1426 genes linked to LUNG CANCER via chemical intermediate
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As 1437 genes Transcription factor Cell cycle, proliferation, apoptosis Stress response protein regulated by numerous transcription factors
As 1437 408 Can CTD predict diseases caused by As exposure? inferred As diseases Cancer Skin Digestive Neurological Metabolic Immune Urogenital Poisoning Blood Endocrine Cardiovascular Musculoskeletal Respiratory Mental disorders
inferred As diseases Cancer Skin Digestive Neurological Metabolic Immune Urogenital Poisoning Blood Endocrine Cardiovascular Musculoskeletal Respiratory Mental disorders As 1437 408 Can CTD predict diseases caused by As exposure? Interesting parallel known As diseases Cancer Skin lesions Digestive Cardiovascular Neurological Respiratory Immune Endocrine Blood
inferred As diseases Cancer Skin Digestive Neurological Metabolic Immune Urogenital Poisoning Blood Endocrine Cardiovascular Musculoskeletal Respiratory Mental disorders Leveraging arsenic-gene-disease curation
CTD: a knowledge and discovery environment K N O W L E D G E D I S C O V E R Y
Principal Investigators Carolyn Mattingly Scientific Curators Allan Peter Davis Cindy Murphy Scientific Software Engineers Michael Rosenstein Thomas Wiegers System Administrator Roy McMorran Funding NIEHS (ES014065 and ES003828) NCRR (RR016463) CTD Team http://ctd.mdibl.org