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NetGenes

General information

URL: https://rbc-dsai-iitm.github.io/NetGenes
Full name: Interaction Networks to Gene Essentiality
Description: NetGenes is a web-database which contains essential genes for 2711 bacterial organisms predicted using protein-protein interaction networks. Housing a total of over 2.1 million genes, NetGenes offers various features like essentiality scores, annotations, and feature vectors for each gene.
Year founded: 2021
Last update:
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Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: India

Contact information

University/Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Address: 5th Floor, Block-II, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036, INDIA
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Country/Region: India
Contact name (PI/Team): Dr. Karthik Raman
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): kraman@iitm.ac.in

Publications

34630517
NetGenes: A Database of Essential Genes Predicted Using Features From Interaction Networks. [PMID: 34630517]
Vimaladhasan Senthamizhan, Balaraman Ravindran, Karthik Raman

Essential gene prediction models built so far are heavily reliant on sequence-based features, and the scope of network-based features has been narrow. Previous work from our group demonstrated the importance of using network-based features for predicting essential genes with high accuracy. Here, we apply our approach for the prediction of essential genes to organisms from the STRING database and host the results in a standalone website. Our database, NetGenes, contains essential gene predictions for 2,700+ bacteria predicted using features derived from STRING protein-protein functional association networks. Housing a total of over 2.1 million genes, NetGenes offers various features like essentiality scores, annotations, and feature vectors for each gene. NetGenes database is available from https://rbc-dsai-iitm.github.io/NetGenes/.

Front Genet. 2021:12() | 8 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
4066/6895 (41.044%)
Gene genome and annotation:
1246/2021 (38.397%)
Interaction:
753/1194 (37.018%)
4066
Total Rank
8
Citations
2
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Created on: 2022-04-23
Curated by:
Lina Ma [2022-06-04]
Pei Liu [2022-05-15]
Pei Liu [2022-05-13]
Sicheng Luo [2022-04-23]