Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)

我们的目标是提供一个无与伦比的，集中的，公开可用的资源， 全面的、专业注释的数据和分析工具，为设计和解释提供信息， 环境健康研究和促进新的见解的病因，环境 影响疾病。大多数人类疾病涉及遗传和环境因素之间的相互作用。 环境与许多常见疾病有关，如哮喘、癌症和糖尿病;然而， 这些广泛传播的疾病的病因仍不清楚。目前有超过80，000种化学品用于 对化学品作用机制的解释提出挑战，并优先考虑环境 research.需要将不同的数据与新的分析方法相结合，以了解环境- 疾病关联，对于改善毒性预测、风险评估、监管和 制定有效的治疗措施。我们开发了比较毒理基因组学数据库 (CTD; http://ctdbase.org），通过提供 描述化学-基因相互作用以及化学-和基因-疾病关系的人工管理数据 从同行评审的文献中并将这些数据与选定的外部数据集（例如，途径和 生物过程数据）和新颖的数据分析工具。自2004年首次公开发布以来，CTD已成为 拥有强大且不断扩大的用户群的完善资源。此次竞争性续约建议， 利用和加强现有的CTD框架，并继续我们的传统， 环境卫生研究界不断变化的需求，通过a）增加内容的深度 通过对我们的“核心”（化学基因/蛋白质疾病）和暴露数据的综合管理，B） 整合精选的公共数据集以增强基于机制的环境健康分析， 以及c）开发和集成新颖的分析和可视化工具。这些补充将 通过集中、协调和 了解不同风险之间的复杂关系所需的背景信息， 环境影响的疾病。

Our objective is to provide an unparalleled, centralized, publicly available resource with comprehensive, expertly annotated data, and analysis tools that informs design and interpretation of environmental health studies and promotes novel insights into the etiologies of environmentally influenced diseases. Most human diseases involve interactions between genetic and environmental factors. The environment is implicated in many common conditions such as asthma, cancer, and diabetes; however, the etiology of these widespread diseases remains unclear. More than 80,000 chemicals are currently used in commerce, challenging elucidation about chemical mechanisms of action and prioritization of environmental research. Integration of diverse data with novel analysis approaches is required to understand environment- disease associations and is essential for improving toxicity prediction, risk assessment, regulation and development of effective therapeutic interventions. We developed the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD; http://ctdbase.org) to enhance understanding about environment-disease connections by providing manually curated data describing chemical-gene interactions and chemical- and gene-disease relationships from the peer-reviewed literature and integrating these data with select external data sets (e.g., pathways and biological process data) and novel data analysis tools. Since its initial public release in 2004, CTD has become a well-established resource with a strong and expanding user base. This competitive renewal proposes to leverage and enhance the existing CTD framework, and continue our tradition of responding to the evolving needs of the environmental health research community by a) increasing the depth of content through comprehensive curation of our “core” (chemical-gene/protein-disease) and exposure data, b) incorporating select public data sets to augment mechanism-based environmental health analyses, and c) developing and integrating novel analytical and visualization tools. These additions will significantly increase the impact of CTD on environmental health research by centralizing, harmonizing, and contextualizing information required to understand the complex relationships between diverse exposures and environmentally influenced diseases.