• DOI:10.1038/srep01802
• Corpus ID: 18097992

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

@article{Sullivan2013InterMODID,
  title={InterMOD: integrated data and tools for the unification of model organism research},
  author={Julie M. Sullivan and Kalpana Karra and Sierra Taylor Moxon and Andrew Vallejos and Howie Motenko and J. D. Wong and Jelena M. Aleksi{\'c} and Rama Balakrishnan and Gail Binkley and Todd W. Harris and Benjamin C. Hitz and Pushkala Jayaraman and Rachel Lyne and Steven B. Neuhauser and Christian Pich and Richard N. Smith and Quang M. Trinh and J. Michael Cherry and Joel E. Richardson and Lincoln Stein and Simon N. Twigger and Monte Westerfield and Elizabeth A. Worthey and Gos Micklem},
  journal={Scientific Reports},
  year={2013},
  volume={3}
}

• Julie M. Sullivan, K. Karra, +21 authors G. Micklem
• Published 8 May 2013
• Biology
• Scientific Reports

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