TogoID: an exploratory ID converter to bridge biological datasets
Author(s) -
Shuya Ikeda,
Hiromasa Ono,
Tazro Ohta,
Hirokazu Chiba,
Yuki Naito,
Yuki Moriya,
Shuichi Kawashima,
Yasunori Yamamoto,
Shinobu Okamoto,
Susumu Goto,
Toshiaki Katayama
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac491
Subject(s) - bridge (graph theory) , computer science , software , exploratory research , programming language , biology , anatomy , sociology , anthropology
Understanding life cannot be accomplished without making full use of biological data, which are scattered across databases of diverse categories in life sciences. To connect such data seamlessly, identifier (ID) conversion plays a key role. However, existing ID conversion services have disadvantages, such as covering only a limited range of biological categories of databases, not keeping up with the updates of the original databases and outputs being hard to interpret in the context of biological relations, especially when converting IDs in multiple steps.
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