Database of Human Disease Causing Gene Homologues in Dictyostelium Discoideum

 

Dicty research resources and Bioinformatics tools


This Human Disease Causing Gene Homologues in Dictyostelium Discoideum(HDGDD) is a collection of Dictyostelium genes homologous to human disease associated genes in this favorite eucaryotic model organism for biomedical research. 1410 Human disease associated genes identified from Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) were compared with Dictyostelium genome by BLAST comparisons.

Results are organized into a searchable and sortable catalogue with links to DictyWorkbench, OMIM and other relevant databases. Results are further organized and analyzed for associated disease types and signaling or metabolic pathways associated.

The following links will provide access to tables containing comparisons between Dictyostelium discoideum and human proteins involved in various diseases.

  • Browse Lists Dictyostelium proteins with an associated human disease name.
  • Search Offers an interface to search by Dictyostelium ORFID, protein name, disease name, OMIMID etc.
  • Signaling proteins among Dictyostelium genes with OMIM hits arranged by protein category.

    The HDGDD database is an Oracle object-relational database with the query interface, Seeker, developed by Roger Unwin. The framework for the database was abstracted from the Biology WorkBench development and from the Alliance for Cellular Signaling(AFCS) Projects lead by Dr.Shankar Subramaniam. The funding support for the above two projects came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

    Questions Comments and Suggestions regarding this portal may be addressed to reddy@sdsc.edu



    *The Dictyostelium Genome Project : The Baylor Sequencing Center, Houston, Texas, (A. Kuspa and R. Gibbs) where sequen cing is supported by the NIH; the Institute of Biochemistry, Cologne together with the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology , Jena, Germany (G. Glckner , A. Rosenthal, L. Eichinger and A. Noegel) where sequencing is supported by the Deutsch e Forschungsgemeinschaft (No 113/10-1 and 10-2).; and the EUDICT consortium supported by The European Union (M-A. Rajandream, D. Lawson and B. Barrell). Guidelines on use of data in publications are available at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/use-policy.shtml and http://www.uni-koeln.de/dictyostelium/guidelines.shtml.

                                          
  • Last Modified:  03-30-2003