InterMOD: integrated data and tools for the unification of model organism research

• DOI: 10.1038/srep01802
• Publication Date: 2013-05-08T09:08:49Z
• Authors: Julie Sullivan; Kalpana Karra; Sierra A. T. Moxon; Andrew Vallejos; Howie Motenko; J. D. Wong; Jelena Aleksic; Rama Balakrishnan; Gail Binkley; Todd Harris; Benjamin Hitz; Pushkala Jayaraman; Rachel Lyne; Steven Neuhauser; Christian Pich; Richard N. Smith; Quang Trinh; J. Michael Cherry; Joel Richardson; Lincoln Stein; Simon Twigger; Monte Westerfield; Elizabeth Worthey; Gos Micklem
• Keywords: Model Organism; DECIPHER; Unification

Abstract Model organisms are widely used for understanding basic biology and have significantly contributed to the study of human disease. In recent years, genomic analysis has provided extensive evidence widespread conservation gene sequence function amongst eukaryotes, allowing insights from model help decipher in a wider range species. The InterMOD consortium is developing an infrastructure based around InterMine data warehouse system integrate functional number key organisms, leading way improved cross-species research. So far including budding yeast, nematode worm, fruit fly, zebrafish, rat mouse, project set up warehouses, synchronized models created tools links between different unites major organism databases, improving both consistency accessibility comparative research, benefit scientific community.