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Title

 

 

 

 

 

CanGeneBase (CGB) - a database on cancer related genes

 

Authors

 

Gopal Ramesh Kumar*, Thankaswamy Kosalai Subazini, Kalyanamoorthy Subha, Chinnasamy Perumal Rajadurai, Latha Prabakar

 

Affiliation

 

Bioinformatics Lab, AU-KBC Research Centre, M.I.T Campus of Anna University, Chennai-600044, India

 

Email

gramesh@au-kbc.org

 

Phone

+91-44-2223 4855

 

Fax

+91-44-2223 1034 / 7073

 

Article Type

 

Database

 

Date

 

received March 2, 2009; revised March 20, 2009; accepted April 16, 2009; published July 27, 2009

 

Abstract

 

The advent of genomic and proteomic technologies in this post-genomic era has urged the researchers to develop novel research strategies against cancer by targeting the human genes that would greatly facilitate to identify more promising treatment and to develop accurate early diagnosis for cancer. To harness the power of cancer genetic information towards better treatment we have developed a cancer gene database called CanGeneBase (CGB). It is a comprehensive data collection of cancer-related genes with the intention of helping the researchers to stay on a single platform to gain exclusive information on the genes of their interest. According to the Cancer Gene Data Curation Project, about 4,700 genes have been identified as being related to cancer. The present CanGeneBase covers about 12 different types of cancer which includes 190 unique gene entries. Each entry encompasses about 33 useful parameters to provide detailed information about specific gene. CanGeneBase is made in such a way that it can be easily accessed by either gene symbol or by the type of cancer.

 

Keywords

Cancer; database; drug list; oncogenes; tumour suppressor genes; cancer types; target; molecular descriptors

Citation

Kumar et al, Bioinformation 3(10): 422-424 (2009)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

 

 

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.