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OMICtools

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URL: http://omictools.com/
Full name: An Informative Directory for Multi-omic Data Analysis
Description: OMICtools is a manually curated metadatabase that provides an overview of more than 4400 web-accessible tools related to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
Year founded: 2014
Last update: 2014-07-14
Version: v1.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: France

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Contact information

University/Institution: Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine of Rouen University
Address: 76183 Rouen, France
City: Rouen
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Country/Region: France
Contact name (PI/Team): Arnaud Desfeux
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): arnaud.desfeux@omictools.com

Publications

25024350
OMICtools: an informative directory for multi-omic data analysis. [PMID: 25024350]
Henry VJ, Bandrowski AE, Pepin AS, Gonzalez BJ, Desfeux A.

Recent advances in 'omic' technologies have created unprecedented opportunities for biological research, but current software and database resources are extremely fragmented. OMICtools is a manually curated metadatabase that provides an overview of more than 4400 web-accessible tools related to genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics. All tools have been classified by omic technologies (next-generation sequencing, microarray, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance) associated with published evaluations of tool performance. Information about each tool is derived either from a diverse set of developers, the scientific literature or from spontaneous submissions. OMICtools is expected to serve as a useful didactic resource not only for bioinformaticians but also for experimental researchers and clinicians. Database URL: http://omictools.com/. © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press.

Database (Oxford). 2014:2014() | 133 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

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1215/6895 (82.393%)
Metadata:
114/719 (84.284%)
1215
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130
Citations
11.818
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Created on: 2015-12-20
Curated by:
Zhang Zhang [2016-06-13]
Lin Liu [2016-03-28]