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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages D658-D662Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl988
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- NHGRI NIH HHS [U41 HG002273, P41 HG002273, HG-002273, R01 HG002273] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-64541, R01 HL064541] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL064541] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The Rat Genome Database (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu) is one of the core resources for rat genomics and recent developments have focused on providing support for disease-based research using the rat model. Recognizing the importance of the rat as a disease model we have employed targeted curation strategies to curate genes, QTL and strain data for neurological and cardiovascular disease areas. This work has centered on rat but also includes data for mouse and human to create 'disease portals' that provide a unified view of the genes, QTL and strain models for these diseases across the three species. The disease curation efforts combined with normal curation activities have served to greatly increase the content of the database, particularly for biological information, including gene ontology, disease, pathway and phenotype ontology annotations. In addition to improving the features and database content, community outreach has been expanded to demonstrate how investigators can leverage the resources at RGD to facilitate their research and to elicit suggestions and needs for future developments. We have published a number of papers that provide additional information on the ontology annotations and the tools at RGD for data mining and analysis to better enable researchers to fully utilize the database.
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