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ODORactor

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URL: http://mdl.shsmu.edu.cn/ODORactor/
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Description: ODORactor provides information related to OR-odorant interactions from the perspective of the odorant.
Year founded: 2011
Last update: 2016-10-01
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Country/Region: United States

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University/Institution: Texas Tech University
Address: Center for Biotechnology and Genomics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
City: Lubbock
Province/State: Texas
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Chiquito Crasto
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): chiquito.crasto@ttu.edu

Publications

27694208
ORDB, HORDE, ODORactor and other on-line knowledge resources of olfactory receptor-odorant interactions. [PMID: 27694208]
Marenco L, Wang R, McDougal R, Olender T, Twik M, Bruford E, Liu X, Zhang J, Lancet D, Shepherd G, Crasto C.

We present here an exploration of the evolution of three well-established, web-based resources dedicated to the dissemination of information related to olfactory receptors (ORs) and their functional ligands, odorants. These resources are: the Olfactory Receptor Database (ORDB), the Human Olfactory Data Explorer (HORDE) and ODORactor. ORDB is a repository of genomic and proteomic information related to ORs and other chemosensory receptors, such as taste and pheromone receptors. Three companion databases closely integrated with ORDB are OdorDB, ORModelDB and OdorMapDB; these resources are part of the SenseLab suite of databases (http://senselab.med.yale.edu). HORDE (http://genome.weizmann.ac.il/horde/) is a semi-automatically populated database of the OR repertoires of human and several mammals. ODORactor (http://mdl.shsmu.edu.cn/ODORactor/) provides information related to OR-odorant interactions from the perspective of the odorant. All three resources are connected to each other via web-links.Database URL: http://senselab.med.yale.edu; http://genome.weizmann.ac.il/horde/; http://mdl.shsmu.edu.cn/ODORactor/. © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press.

Database (Oxford). 2016:2016() | 14 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)
21700676
ODORactor: a web server for deciphering olfactory coding. [PMID: 21700676]
Liu X, Su X, Wang F, Huang Z, Wang Q, Li Z, Zhang R, Wu L, Pan Y, Chen Y, Zhuang H, Chen G, Shi T, Zhang J.

ODORactor is an open access web server aimed at providing a platform for identifying odorant receptors (ORs) for small molecules and for browsing existing OR-ligand pairs. It enables the prediction of ORs from the molecular structures of arbitrary chemicals by integrating two individual functionalities: odorant verification and OR recognition. The prediction of the ORs for several odorants was experimentally validated in the study. In addition, ODORactor features a comprehensive repertoire of olfactory information that has been manually curated from literature. Therefore, ODORactor may provide an effective way to decipher olfactory coding and could be a useful server tool for both basic olfaction research in academia and for odorant discovery in industry. Freely available at http://mdl.shsmu.edu.cn/ODORactor jian.zhang@sjtu.edu.cn Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Bioinformatics. 2011:27(16) | 33 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

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3138/6895 (54.503%)
Health and medicine:
781/1738 (55.121%)
3138
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46
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Created on: 2017-03-07
Curated by:
sun yongqing [2022-08-24]
Lina Ma [2017-06-05]
Shixiang Sun [2017-03-07]