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ReviewNucleic acids research2017

MalaCards: an amalgamated human disease compendium with diverse clinical and genetic annotation and structured search.

Noa Rappaport, Michal Twik, Inbar Plaschkes, Ron Nudel, Tsippi Iny Stein, Jacob Levitt, Moran Gershoni, C Paul Morrey, Marilyn Safran, Doron Lancet

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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 373 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

373 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Noa RappaportDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Michal TwikDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Inbar PlaschkesDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Ron NudelDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Tsippi Iny SteinDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Jacob LevittDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Moran GershoniDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
C Paul MorreyDepartment of Information Systems and Technology, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT 84058, USA.
Marilyn SafranDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel.
Doron LancetDepartment of Molecular Genetics, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel doron.lancet@weizmann.ac.il.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The MalaCards human disease database (http://www.malacards.org/) is an integrated compendium of annotated diseases mined from 68 data sources. MalaCards has a web card for each of ∼20 000 disease entries, in six global categories. It portrays a broad array of annotation topics in 15 sections, including Summaries, Symptoms, Anatomical Context, Drugs, Genetic Tests, Variations and Publications. The Aliases and Classifications section reflects an algorithm for disease name integration across often-conflicting sources, providing effective annotation consolidation. A central feature is a balanced Genes section, with scores reflecting the strength of disease-gene associations. This is accompanied by other gene-related disease information such as pathways, mouse phenotypes and GO-terms, stemming from MalaCards' affiliation with the GeneCards Suite of databases. MalaCards' capacity to inter-link information from complementary sources, along with its elaborate search function, relational database infrastructure and convenient data dumps, allows it to tackle its rich disease annotation landscape, and facilitates systems analyses and genome sequence interpretation. MalaCards adopts a 'flat' disease-card approach, but each card is mapped to popular hierarchical ontologies (e.g. International Classification of Diseases, Human Phenotype Ontology and Unified Medical Language System) and also contains information about multi-level relations among diseases, thereby providing an optimal tool for disease representation and scrutiny.

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Computational BiologyDatabases, GeneticAlgorithmsGenetic Association StudiesGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationGenomicsHumansMolecular Sequence AnnotationWeb Browser

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PMID27899610
PMCPMC5210521

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