TiSGeD: a database for tissue-specific genes.

Xiao, Sheng-Jian; Zhang, Chi; Zou, Quan; Ji, Zhi-Liang · Bioinformatics · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The tissue-specific genes are a group of genes whose function and expression are preferred in one or several tissues/cell types. Identification of these genes helps better understanding of tissue-gene relationship, etiology and discovery of novel tissue-specific drug targets. In this study, a statistical method is introduced to detect tissue-specific genes from more than 123 125 gene expression profiles over 107 human tissues, 67 mouse tissues and 30 rat tissues. As a result, a novel subject-specialized repository, namely the tissue-specific genes database (TiSGeD), is developed to represent the analyzed results. Auxiliary information of tissue-specific genes was also collected from biomedical literatures. http://bioinf.xmu.edu.cn/databases/TiSGeD/index.html.

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