Wednesday, February 22, 2006

ORegAnno: Open Regulatory Annotation

ORegAnno: Open Regulatory Annotation: "The Open REGulatory ANNOtation database (ORegAnno) is an open database for the curation of known regulatory elements from scientific literature. Annotation is collected from users worldwide for various biological assays and is automatically cross-referenced against PubMED, Entrez Gene, EnsEMBL, dbSNP, the eVOC: Cell type ontology, and the Taxonomy database, where appropriate, with information regarding the original experimentation performed (evidence). "

ORegAnno: an open access database and curation system for literature-derived promoters, transcription factor binding sites and regulatory variation
S. B. Montgomery, O. L. Griffith, M. C. Sleumer, C. M. Bergman, M. Bilenky, E. D. Pleasance, Y. Prychyna, X. Zhang, and S. J. M. Jones Bioinformatics 2006 22: 637-640.
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE http://bioinformatics.oxfordjounals.org/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/637