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GRAND

General information

URL: https://grand.networkmedicine.org
Full name: Gene Regulatory Networks Database
Description: GRAND is a collection of gene regulatory networks derived from human tissues, cancer, cell lines, and small molecule drugs.
Year founded: 2021
Last update: 2022-03-04
Version: v1.5.0
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: United States

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Contact information

University/Institution: Harvard University
Address: Harvard Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Biostat, Boston, MA 02115 USA
City: Boston
Province/State: Massachusetts
Country/Region: United States
Contact name (PI/Team): Quackenbush, John
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): johng@lisph.harvard.edu

Publications

34508353
GRAND: a database of gene regulatory network models across human conditions. [PMID: 34508353]
Marouen Ben Guebila, Camila M Lopes-Ramos, Deborah Weighill, Abhijeet Rajendra Sonawane, Rebekka Burkholz, Behrouz Shamsaei, John Platig, Kimberly Glass, Marieke L Kuijjer, John Quackenbush

Gene regulation plays a fundamental role in shaping tissue identity, function, and response to perturbation. Regulatory processes are controlled by complex networks of interacting elements, including transcription factors, miRNAs and their target genes. The structure of these networks helps to determine phenotypes and can ultimately influence the development of disease or response to therapy. We developed GRAND (https://grand.networkmedicine.org) as a database for computationally-inferred, context-specific gene regulatory network models that can be compared between biological states, or used to predict which drugs produce changes in regulatory network structure. The database includes 12 468 genome-scale networks covering 36 human tissues, 28 cancers, 1378 unperturbed cell lines, as well as 173 013 TF and gene targeting scores for 2858 small molecule-induced cell line perturbation paired with phenotypic information. GRAND allows the networks to be queried using phenotypic information and visualized using a variety of interactive tools. In addition, it includes a web application that matches disease states to potentially therapeutic small molecule drugs using regulatory network properties.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2021:() | 56 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2026-03-28)

Ranking

All databases:
1266/6932 (81.751%)
Health and medicine:
303/1755 (82.792%)
Interaction:
247/1200 (79.5%)
1266
Total Rank
50
Citations
10
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Created on: 2022-04-23
Curated by:
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Pei Liu [2022-05-14]
Sicheng Luo [2022-04-23]