MetNet Online: a novel integrated resource for plant systems biology

BMC Bioinformatics

Software

Yi Wang¹  Jie Li²  Eve Syrkin Wurtele²  Yves Sucaet² 

[1] Dept of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA;Dept of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA;Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA;

关键词: Biological Network;    Custom Network;    Online Portal;    Video Tutorial;    Integrative System Biology;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2105-13-267

 received in 2011-12-23, accepted in 2012-08-10,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundPlants are important as foods, pharmaceuticals, biorenewable chemicals, fuel resources, bioremediation tools and general tools for recombinant technology. The study of plant biological pathways is advanced by easy access to integrated data sources. Today, various plant data sources are scattered throughout the web, making it increasingly complicated to build comprehensive datasets.ResultsMetNet Online is a web-based portal that provides access to a regulatory and metabolic plant pathway database. The database and portal integrate Arabidopsis, soybean (Glycine max) and grapevine (Vitis vinifera) data. Pathways are enriched with known or predicted information on sub cellular location. MetNet Online enables pathways, interactions and entities to be browsed or searched by multiple categories such as sub cellular compartment, pathway ontology, and GO term. In addition to this, the “My MetNet” feature allows registered users to bookmark content and track, import and export customized lists of entities. Users can also construct custom networks using existing pathways and/or interactions as building blocks.ConclusionThe site can be reached athttp://www.metnetonline.org. Extensive video tutorials on how to use the site are available throughhttp://www.metnetonline.org/tutorial/.

【 授权许可】

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© Sucaet et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.