2/4/2022 – Recent RGD papers discuss new data and tools

RGD is pleased to report that two recent papers have been published, that discuss data and tools available at RGD. The first paper discusses and demonstrates the usefulness of RGD’s data for multiple comparative species. Kaldunski ML, Smith JR, Hayman GT, Brodie K, De Pons JL, Demos WM, Gibson AC, Hill ML, Hoffman MJ, Lamers L, Laulederkind SJF, Nalabolu HS, Thorat K, Thota J, Tutaj M, Tutaj MA, Vedi M, Wang SJ, Zacher S, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE. The Rat Genome Database (RGD) facilitates genomic and phenotypic data integration across multiple species for biomedical research. Mamm Genome. 2021 Nov 5:1–15. doi: 10.1007/s00335-021-09932-x. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34741192. This paper can be accessed here. The second paper demonstrates the functionality of our newest data analysis tool, the Multi-Ontology Enrichment Tool (MOET). Mahima Vedi, Harika S Nalabolu, Chien-Wei Lin, Matthew J Hoffman, Jennifer R Smith, Kent Brodie, Jeffrey L De Pons, Wendy M Demos, Adam C Gibson, G Thomas Hayman, Morgan L Hill, Mary L Kaldunski, Logan Lamers, Stanley J F Laulederkind, Ketaki Thorat, Jyothi Thota, Monika Tutaj, Marek A Tutaj, Shur-Jen Wang, Stacy Zacher, Melinda R Dwinell, Anne E Kwitek. MOET: a web-based gene set enrichment tool at the Rat Genome Database for multiontology and multispecies analyses. Genetics, iyac005, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyac005. Published: 28 January 2022 This paper can be accessed here.