ProKinO: an ontology for integrative analysis of protein kinases in cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protein kinases are a large and diverse family of enzymes that are genomically altered in many human cancers. Targeted cancer genome sequencing efforts have unveiled the mutational profiles of protein kinase genes from many different cancer types. While mutational data on protein kinases is currently catalogued in various databases, integration of mutation data with other forms of data on protein kinases such as sequence, structure, function and pathway is necessary to identify and characterize key cancer causing mutations. Integrative analysis of protein kinase data, however, is a challenge because of the disparate nature of protein kinase data sources and data formats.

Results

Here, we describe ProKinO, a protein kinase-specific ontology, which provides a contro

SUBMITTER: Gosal G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3237543 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature