The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database: update 2011

The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) is a public resource that promotes understanding about the interaction of environmental chemicals with gene products, and their effects on human health. Biocurators at CTD manually curate a triad of chemical–gene, chemical–disease and gene–disease relationships from the literature. These core data are then integrated to construct chemical–gene–disease networks and to predict many novel relationships using different types of associated data. Since 2009, we dramatically

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Allan Peter Davis, Benjamin L. King, Susan Mockus, Cynthia G. Murphy, Cynthia A. Saraceni-Richards, Michael C. Rosenstein, Thomas C. Wiegers, Carolyn J. Mattingly
• Keywords: Core Data, Environmental Chemicals, NAR 2011, Toxicogenomics