| URL: | http://www.cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/destaf/ |
| Full name: | Dragon Exploration System for Toxicants and Fertility |
| Description: | The Dragon Exploration System for Toxicants and Fertility (DESTAF) is a specialized, public resource specifically aimed at researchers investigating reproductive toxicity. |
| Year founded: | 2012 |
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| Version: | v1.0 |
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| Country/Region: | Saudi Arabia |
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| University/Institution: | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Address: | Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia |
| City: | Thuwal |
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| Country/Region: | Saudi Arabia |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | Vladimir B. Bajic |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | vladimir.bajic@kaust.edu.sa |
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DESTAF: a database of text-mined associations for reproductive toxins potentially affecting human fertility. [PMID: 22198179]
The Dragon Exploration System for Toxicants and Fertility (DESTAF) is a publicly available resource which enables researchers to efficiently explore both known and potentially novel information and associations in the field of reproductive toxicology. To create DESTAF we used data from the literature (including over 10500 PubMed abstracts), several publicly available biomedical repositories, and specialized, curated dictionaries. DESTAF has an interface designed to facilitate rapid assessment of the key associations between relevant concepts, allowing for a more in-depth exploration of information based on different gene/protein-, enzyme/metabolite-, toxin/chemical-, disease- or anatomically centric perspectives. As a special feature, DESTAF allows for the creation and initial testing of potentially new association hypotheses that suggest links between biological entities identified through the database. DESTAF, along with a PDF manual, can be found at http://cbrc.kaust.edu.sa/destaf. It is free to academic and non-commercial users and will be updated quarterly. Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |