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ArticleNucleic acids research2010

SMPDB: The Small Molecule Pathway Database.

Alex Frolkis, Craig Knox, Emilia Lim, Timothy Jewison, Vivian Law, David D Hau, Phillip Liu, Bijaya Gautam, Son Ly, An Chi Guo and 4 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 206 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
206citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

206 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 368 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alex FrolkisDepartment of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Craig Knox
Emilia Lim
Timothy Jewison
Vivian Law
David D Hau
Phillip Liu
Bijaya Gautam
Son Ly
An Chi Guo
Jianguo Xia
Yongjie Liang
Savita Shrivastava
David S Wishart
University of Alberta · CANational Institute for Nanotechnology · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Small Molecule Pathway Database (SMPDB) is an interactive, visual database containing more than 350 small-molecule pathways found in humans. More than 2/3 of these pathways (>280) are not found in any other pathway database. SMPDB is designed specifically to support pathway elucidation and pathway discovery in clinical metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and systems biology. SMPDB provides exquisitely detailed, hyperlinked diagrams of human metabolic pathways, metabolic disease pathways, metabolite signaling pathways and drug-action pathways. All SMPDB pathways include information on the relevant organs, organelles, subcellular compartments, protein cofactors, protein locations, metabolite locations, chemical structures and protein quaternary structures. Each small molecule is hyperlinked to detailed descriptions contained in the Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) or DrugBank and each protein or enzyme complex is hyperlinked to UniProt. All SMPDB pathways are accompanied with detailed descriptions, providing an overview of the pathway, condition or processes depicted in each diagram. The database is easily browsed and supports full text searching. Users may query SMPDB with lists of metabolite names, drug names, genes/protein names, SwissProt IDs, GenBank IDs, Affymetrix IDs or Agilent microarray IDs. These queries will produce lists of matching pathways and highlight the matching molecules on each of the pathway diagrams. Gene, metabolite and protein concentration data can also be visualized through SMPDB's mapping interface. All of SMPDB's images, image maps, descriptions and tables are downloadable. SMPDB is available at: http://www.smpdb.ca.

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Databases, GeneticDatabases, Nucleic AcidSignal TransductionAnimalsComputational BiologyDatabases, ProteinHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalInternetMammalsMetabolomeMetabolomicsPharmaceutical PreparationsProtein Structure, TertiarySoftwarePharmaceutical Preparations

Identifiers

PMID19948758
PMCPMC2808928
OpenAlexW2125318012

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