Friday, December 08, 2006

Pathway Interaction Database

From the cool resources department: the Nature website now features a pathway interaction database. Less flashy than Biocarta (another good pathway resource), the PID features almost 300 pathways and over 4000 interactions (from both Biocarta and an NCI-Nature collaboration) showing regulators, interactions and up- and down-stream effectors, all clickable for even more detailed information. Great for when your PI just needs to see a picture. The default display is SVG, which didn't seem to work on my laptop, but GIF, XML and other formats are available.


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pathway Interaction Database (PID) default has been changed to GIF format. PID also provides data in XML and BioPAX level 2 formats.

Content is added every month (on an average two new pathways per month). It also includes a section called the Bioinformatics Primer which are commissioned reviewes on similar online resources.