H-InvDB in 2009: extended database and data mining resources for human genes and transcripts

Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Jan;38(Database issue):D626-32. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp1020. Epub 2009 Nov 23.

Abstract

We report the extended database and data mining resources newly released in the H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB; http://www.h-invitational.jp/). H-InvDB is a comprehensive annotation resource of human genes and transcripts, and consists of two main views and six sub-databases. The latest release of H-InvDB (release 6.2) provides the annotation for 219,765 human transcripts in 43,159 human gene clusters based on human full-length cDNAs and mRNAs. H-InvDB now provides several new annotation features, such as mapping of microarray probes, new gene models, relation to known ncRNAs and information from the Glycogene database. H-InvDB also provides useful data mining resources-'Navigation search', 'H-InvDB Enrichment Analysis Tool (HEAT)' and web service APIs. 'Navigation search' is an extended search system that enables complicated searches by combining 16 different search options. HEAT is a data mining tool for automatically identifying features specific to a given human gene set. HEAT searches for H-InvDB annotations that are significantly enriched in a user-defined gene set, as compared with the entire H-InvDB representative transcripts. H-InvDB now has web service APIs of SOAP and REST to allow the use of H-InvDB data in programs, providing the users extended data accessibility.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computational Biology / trends
  • DNA, Complementary / metabolism
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Databases, Nucleic Acid*
  • Genome, Human
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods
  • Internet
  • Models, Genetic
  • Multigene Family*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • RNA, Messenger / metabolism
  • Software
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • DNA, Complementary
  • RNA, Messenger