VenomKB, a new knowledge base for facilitating the validation of putative venom therapies.

ABSTRACT: Animal venoms have been used for therapeutic purposes since the dawn of recorded history. Only a small fraction, however, have been tested for pharmaceutical utility. Modern computational methods enable the systematic exploration of novel therapeutic uses for venom compounds. Unfortunately, there is currently no comprehensive resource describing the clinical effects of venoms to support this computational analysis. We present VenomKB, a new publicly accessible knowledge base and website that aims to act as a repository for emerging and putative venom therapies. Presently, it consists of three database tables: (1) Manually curated records of putative venom therapies supported by scientific literature, (2) automatically parsed MEDLINE articles describing compounds that may be venom derived,

SUBMITTER: Romano JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658572 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature