InnateDB (http://www.innatedb.com) is an integrated analysis platform that has been specifically designed to facilitate systems-level analyses of mammalian innate immunity networks, pathways and genes. In this article, we provide details of recent updates and improvements to the database. InnateDB now contains >196 000 human, mouse and bovine experimentally validated molecular interactions and 3000 pathway annotations of relevance to all mammalian cellular systems (i.e. not just immune relevant pathways and interactions). In addition, the InnateDB team has, to date, manually curated in excess of 18 000 molecular interactions of relevance to innate immunity, providing unprecedented insight into innate immunity networks, pathways and their component molecules. More recently, InnateDB has also initiated the curation of allergy- and asthma-related interactions. Furthermore, we report a range of improvements to our integrated bioinformatics solutions including web service access to InnateDB interaction data using Proteomics Standards Initiative Common Query Interface, enhanced Gene Ontology analysis for innate immunity, and the availability of new network visualizations tools. Finally, the recent integration of bovine data makes InnateDB the first integrated network analysis platform for this agriculturally important model organism.
The Proteomics Standard Initiative Common QUery InterfaCe (PSICQUIC) specification was
created by the Human Proteome Organization Proteomics Standards Initiative (HUPO-PSI) to
enable computational access to molecular-interaction data resources by means of a standard
Web Service and query language. Currently providing >150 million binary interaction
evidences from 28 servers globally, the PSICQUIC interface allows the concurrent search of
multiple molecular-interaction information resources using a single query. Here, we
present an extension of the PSICQUIC specification (version 1.3), which has been released
to be compliant with the enhanced standards in molecular interactions. The new release
also includes a new reference implementation of the PSICQUIC server available to the data
providers. It offers augmented web service capabilities and improves the user experience.
PSICQUIC has been running for almost 5 years, with a user base growing from only 4 data
providers to 28 (April 2013) allowing access to 151 310 109 binary interactions. The power
of this web service is shown in PSICQUIC View web application, an example of how to
simultaneously query, browse and download results from the different PSICQUIC servers.
This application is free and open to all users with no login requirement (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/psicquic/view/main.xhtml).
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