Journal
BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12918-018-0616-4
Keywords
Integrated databases; Bioinformatics databases; Graph databases; BioGraphDB; miRNA
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- CNR Interomics Flagship Project [CUP B81J12000980001]
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Background: Several online databases provide a large amount of biomedical data of different biological entities. These resources are typically stored in systems implementing their own data model, user interface and query language. On the other hand, in many bioinformatics scenarios there is often the need to use more than one resource. The availability of a single bioinformatics platform that integrates many biological resources and services is, for those reasons a fundamental issue. Description: Here, we present BioGraph, a web application that allows to query, visualize and analyze biological data belonging to several online available sources. BioGraph is built upon our previously developed graph database called BioGraphDB, that integrates and stores heterogeneous biological resources and make them available by means of a common structure and a unique query language. BioGraph implements state-of-the-art technologies and provides pre-compiled bioinformatics scenarios, as well as the possibility to perform custom queries and obtaining an interactive and dynamic visualization of results. Conclusion: We present a case study about functional analysis of microRNA in breast cancer in order to demonstrate the functionalities of the system. BioGraph is freely available at http://biograph.pa.icar.cnr.it. Source files are available on GitHub at https://github.com/IcarPA-TBlab/BioGraph
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