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The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories

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Smedley, Damian, Haider, Syed, Durinck, Steffen, Pandini, Luca, Provero, Paolo, Allen, James, Arnaiz, Olivier, Awedh, Mohammad Hamza +97 more·2015·Nucleic Acids Research

Abstract

The BioMart Community Portal (www.biomart.org) is a community-driven effort to provide a unified interface to biomedical databases that are distributed worldwide. The portal provides access to numerous database projects supported by 30 scientific organizations. It includes over 800 different biological datasets spanning genomics, proteomics, model organisms, cancer data, ontology information and more. All resources available through the portal are independently administered and funded by their host organizations. The BioMart data federation technology provides a unified interface to all the available data. The latest version of the portal comes with many new databases that have been created by our ever-growing community. It also comes with better support and extensibility for data analysis and visualization tools. A new addition to our toolbox, the enrichment analysis tool is now accessible through graphical and web service interface. The BioMart community portal averages over one million requests per day. Building on this level of service and the wealth of information that has become available, the BioMart Community Portal has introduced a new, more scalable and cheaper alternative to the large data stores maintained by specialized organizations.

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Smedley, D., Haider, S., Durinck, S., Pandini, L., Provero, P., Allen, J., Arnaiz, O., Awedh, M. H., Baldock, R., Barbiera, G., Bardou, P., Beck, T., Blake, A., Bonierbale, M., Brookes, A. J., Bucci, G., Buetti, I., Burge, S., Cabau, C., Carlson, J. W., Chelala, C., Chrysostomou, C., Cittaro, D., Collin, O., Cordova, R., Cutts, R. J., Dassi, E., Genova, A. D., Djari, A., Esposito, A., Estrella, H., Eyras, E., Fernandez-Banet, J., Forbes, S., Free, R. C., Fujisawa, T., Gadaleta, E., Garcia-Manteiga, J. M., Goodstein, D., Gray, K., Guerra-Assunção, J. A., Haggarty, B., Han, D.-J., Han, B. W., Harris, T., Harshbarger, J., Hastings, R. K., Hayes, R. D., Hoede, C., Hu, S., Hu, Z.-L., Hutchins, L., Kan, Z., Kawaji, H., Keliet, A., Kerhornou, A., Kim, S., Kinsella, R., Klopp, C., Kong, L., Lawson, D., Lazarevic, D., Lee, J.-H., Letellier, T., Li, C.-Y., Lio, P., Liu, C.-J., Luo, J., Maass, A., Mariette, J., Maurel, T., Merella, S., Mohamed, A. M., Moreews, F., Nabihoudine, I., Ndegwa, N., Noirot, C., Perez-Llamas, C., Primig, M., Quattrone, A., Quesneville, H., Rambaldi, D., Reecy, J., Riba, M., Rosanoff, S., Saddiq, A. A., Salas, E., Sallou, O., Shepherd, R., Simon, R., Sperling, L., Spooner, W., Staines, D. M., Steinbach, D., Stone, K., Stupka, E., Teague, J. W., Dayem Ullah, A. Z., Wang, J., Ware, D., Wong-Erasmus, M., Youens-Clark, K., Zadissa, A., Zhang, S.-J., & Kasprzyk, A.
Affiliations
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • Genentech (US)
  • University of Turin (IT)
  • European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
  • Université Paris-Sud (FR)
  • King Abdulaziz University (SA)
  • Western General Hospital (GB)
  • Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR)
  • University of Leicester (GB)
  • Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell (GB)
  • International Potato Center (PE)
  • Joint Genome Institute (US)
  • Queen Mary University of London (GB)
  • Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (FR)
  • University of Trento (IT)
  • Center for Mathematical Modeling (CL)
  • Genotoul coordination (FR)
  • Pfizer (United States) (US)
  • Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
  • Kazusa DNA Research Institute (JP)
  • Seoul National University (KR)
  • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (CA)
  • RIKEN (JP)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Iowa State University (US)
  • Jackson Laboratory (US)
  • Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
  • Peking University (CN)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
  • Inserm (FR)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author
Kasprzyk, Arek
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2015-04-20
Volume
43
Issue
W1
Pages
W589-W598
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2109488005
Cited by
755
References
54
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35.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, 05CH11231, DE AC02 05CH11231, DE-AC02-)
  • Wellcome Trust (095908, WT095908, 077012/Z/05/Z, WT 098051, 077012)
  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Breast Cancer Campaign
  • National Research Foundation
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-12-BSV6-0017, ANR-14-CE10-0005, ANR-10-BLAN-1122, DE-AC02-05CH11231, ANR-12, ANR-10)
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
  • Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2013M3A6A4043695)
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (DE‐AC02‐05‐CH11231)
  • King Abdulaziz University
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (DE-AC02-05CH11231)
  • Fundación Sandra Ibarra de Solidaridad Frente al Cáncer (FSI2013, CSD2009-00080, BIO2011-23920)
  • Office of Science (DEAC02–05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02, 05CH11231)
  • RIKEN
  • National Human Genome Research Institute (U41HG003345)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
Keywords
BioMart, enrichment analysis, web services, data visualization tools, genomic data, proteomics data, cancer data, scalable data storage
MeSH terms
Database Management Systems, Humans, Neoplasms, Internet, Genomics, Proteomics

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