Editome Disease Knowledgebase (EDK): a curated knowledgebase of editome-disease associations in human

Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8;47(D1):D78-D83. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky958.

Abstract

RNA editing, as an essential co-/post-transcriptional RNA modification type, plays critical roles in many biological processes and involves with a variety of human diseases. Although several databases have been developed to collect RNA editing data in both model and non-model animals, there still lacks a resource integrating associations between editome and human disease. In this study, we present Editome-Disease Knowledgebase (EDK; http://bigd.big.ac.cn/edk), an integrated knowledgebase of RNA editome-disease associations manually curated from published literatures. In the current version, EDK incorporates 61 diseases associated with 248 experimentally validated abnormal editing events located in 32 mRNAs, 16 miRNAs, 1 lncRNA and 11 viruses, and 44 aberrant activities involved with 6 editing enzymes, which together are curated from more than 200 publications. In addition, to facilitate standardization of editome-disease knowledge integration, we propose a data curation model in EDK, factoring an abundance of relevant information to fully capture the context of editome-disease associations. Taken together, EDK is a comprehensive collection of editome-disease associations and bears the great utility in aid of better understanding the RNA editing machinery and complex molecular mechanisms associated with human diseases.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
  • Genome-Wide Association Study* / methods
  • Humans
  • RNA Editing*
  • RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional*
  • Software
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Web Browser