Pathway Commons: A Public Library of Biological Pathways

描述(申请人提供)：生物途径代表关于分子、过程及其相互作用的知识。这些路径的地图被用来设计和分析实验，并用于预测生物系统的行为。对于生物学家来说，在目前支离破碎和不完整的状态下使用路径信息是极其困难的，需要花费大量的时间和精力来涉水浏览、拼凑和分析。目前正在开发Path Commons研究资源以克服这一障碍，为研究人员提供一个方便的单点访问各种生物途径信息的方法，这些信息被翻译成一种通用的数据语言。这一项目是朝着建立一个完整和完整的跨物种和发育阶段的细胞可计算地图迈出的重要一步。Path Commons通过社区促进和支持融合，以真正集成的、可计算和可搜索的细胞生物学过程表示。Path Commons不与Path数据库或软件工具提供商竞争或重复其工作。现有的数据库组提供路径管理，而Path Commons提供增加价值、传播和减少重复工作的机制和技术。与用户和数据库小组的协作是一个核心组成部分，其驱动因素是最大限度地发挥协同作用和提高效率的愿望。Path Commons资源将汇集来自多个主要路径数据库的数据集；翻译、存储、验证、索引、整合、超链接和维护信息，以实现最高质量的访问；使用先进的互联网技术向科学公众免费提供路径信息；并提供用于路径浏览和分析的开源终端用户软件。科学界将免费获得对Path Commons和相关资源的用户支持和培训。 与公共卫生相关：人类基因组序列的完成和分子技术的进步导致了生物数据的爆炸性增长，这正在推动生物学朝着更多地使用计算工具的方向发展。Path Commons正在使生物学知识可用于计算处理，并帮助创建生物过程的预测模型。这些模型将给生物学和健康研究带来革命性的变化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biological pathways represent knowledge about molecules, processes and their interactions. Maps of such pathways are used to design and analyze experiments, and for predicting the behavior of biological systems. Pathway information is extremely difficult for biologists to use in its current fragmented and incomplete state, involving a large amount of time and effort to wade through, piece together and analyze. The Pathway Commons research resource is being developed to overcome this roadblock by providing researchers with a convenient single point of access to diverse biological pathway information translated to a common data language. This project is an important step towards the development of a complete and integrated computable map of the cell across all species and developmental stages. Pathway Commons promotes and supports convergence, by the community, to a truly integrated computable and searchable representation of cellular biological processes. Pathway Commons does not compete with or duplicate efforts of pathway databases or softward tool providers. Existing database groups provide pathway curation, while Pathway Commons provides mechanims and technology for adding value, disseminating, and reducing duplication of effort. Collaboration with user and database groups is a central component, driven by the desire for maximum synergy and efficiency. The Pathway Commons resource will aggregate datasets from multiple major pathway databases; translate, store, validate, index, integrate, hyperlink and maintain the information for maximum quality access; freely deliver pathway information to the scientific public, both academic and commercial, using advanced internet technology; and, provide open-source end user software for pathway browsing and analysis. User support and training for Pathway Commons and related resources will be freely available to the scientific community. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The completion of the human genome sequence and advances in molecular technologies has led to an explosion of biological data, which is driving biology towards increased use of computational tools. Pathway Commons is making biological knowledge available for computational processing, and is helping create predictive models of biological processes. These models will revolutionize biology and health research.