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WholeCellKB

General information

URL: http://wholecellkb.stanford.edu/
Full name: WholeCellKB
Description: WholeCellKB is an open-source web-based software program for constructing model organism databases.
Year founded: 2013
Last update: 2012-11-27
Version: v1.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United States

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Contact information

University/Institution: Stanford University
Address: 318 Campus Drive West,Stanford,CA 94305,USA
City: Stanford
Province/State: CA
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Markus W. Covert
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): mcovert@stanford.edu

Publications

23175606
WholeCellKB: model organism databases for comprehensive whole-cell models. [PMID: 23175606]
Karr JR, Sanghvi JC, Macklin DN, Arora A, Covert MW.

Whole-cell models promise to greatly facilitate the analysis of complex biological behaviors. Whole-cell model development requires comprehensive model organism databases. WholeCellKB (http://wholecellkb.stanford.edu) is an open-source web-based software program for constructing model organism databases. WholeCellKB provides an extensive and fully customizable data model that fully describes individual species including the structure and function of each gene, protein, reaction and pathway. We used WholeCellKB to create WholeCellKB-MG, a comprehensive database of the Gram-positive bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium using over 900 sources. WholeCellKB-MG is extensively cross-referenced to existing resources including BioCyc, KEGG and UniProt. WholeCellKB-MG is freely accessible through a web-based user interface as well as through a RESTful web service.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2013:41(Database issue) | 34 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
3520/6895 (48.963%)
Expression:
740/1347 (45.137%)
Interaction:
648/1194 (45.812%)
Pathway:
215/451 (52.55%)
3520
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32
Citations
2.667
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Created on: 2015-06-20
Curated by:
Hongyan Yin [2016-03-31]
Li Yang [2015-06-26]
Hongyan Yin [2015-06-26]