MalaCards
General Information
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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FAIRsharing.org: MalaCards; MalaCards; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.e4r5nj;
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Before: The MalaCards human disease database (http://www. malacards.org/) is an integrated compendium of annotated diseases mined from68 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.
After: 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. Domain list has changed: Previous values: disease database|medical database|None| New values: Life Science|domain| Disease|information content entity|http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/Backend/BIRNLex-OBI-proxy.owl#birnlex_11013 Biomedical Science|None| Taxonomy list has changed: Previous values: New values: Homo sapiens|http://identifiers.org/taxonomy/9606?resource=MIR:00100019 Related standards have changed: Previous values: New values: bsg-s000131:Human Phenotype Ontology bsg-s000274:International Classification of Diseases Version 10 Publication List has changed: Previous values: MalaCards: an amalgamated human disease compendium with diverse clinical and genetic annotation and structured search New values: MalaCards: an amalgamated human disease compendium with diverse clinical and genetic annotation and structured search. Tools have changed: Previous values: New values: View by Category Support links have changed: Previous values: http://www.malacards.org/pages/info#whats_in_a_malacard New values: http://www.malacards.org/pages/info#whats_in_a_malacard http://www.malacards.org/pages/searchguide Licenses have changed: Previous values: New values: GeneCards Academic License Related databases have changed: Previous values: New values: biodbcore-000593: GeneCards: human genes|protein and diseases
Publications
MalaCards: an amalgamated human disease compendium with diverse clinical and genetic annotation and structured search.
Rappaport N,Twik M,Plaschkes I,Nudel R,Iny Stein T,Levitt J,Gershoni M,Morrey CP,Safran M,Lancet D
Nucleic Acids Res 2016
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