Title
Pharos: Collating Protein Information To Shed Light On The Druggable Genome
Abstract
The 'druggable genome' encompasses several protein families, but only a subset of targets within them have attracted significant research attention and thus have information about them publicly available. The Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) program was initiated in 2014, has the goal of developing experimental techniques and a Knowledge Management Center (KMC) that would collect and organize information about protein targets from four families, representing the most common druggable targets with an emphasis on understudied proteins. Here, we describe two resources developed by the KMC: the Target Central Resource Database (TCRD) which collates many heterogeneous gene/protein datasets and Pharos (https://pharos.nih.gov), a multimodal web interface that presents the data from TCRD. We briefly describe the types and sources of data considered by the KMC and then highlight features of the Pharos interface designed to enable intuitive access to the IDG knowledgebase. The aim of Pharos is to encourage 'serendipitous browsing', whereby related, relevant information is made easily discoverable. We conclude by describing two use cases that highlight the utility of Pharos and TCRD.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1093/nar/gkw1072
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Field
DocType
Volume
Genome,Druggability,Web browser,Biology,Genomics,Genetics
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
D1
0305-1048
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.71
11
30
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dac-Trung Nguyen1123.10
Stephen L. Mathias2364.80
Cristian Bologa3293.54
Søren Brunak41459146.62
Nicolas F. Fernandez5100.71
Anna Gaulton6102868.35
Anne Hersey778337.07
Jayme Holmes8282.91
Lars Juhl Jensen92202137.56
Anneli Karlsson10100.71
Gui-Xia Liu1125020.24
Avi Ma'ayan1242635.60
Geetha Mandava13100.71
S Mani1439130.95
Saurabh Mehta15478.00
John P Overington1688254.17
Juhee Patel17100.71
Andrew D Rouillard18433.28
Stephan C Schürer1913114.74
Timothy Sheils20100.71
Anton Simeonov21103.08
Larry A. Sklar22142.18
Noel Southall23122.83
Oleg Ursu24394.57
Dusica Vidovic25100.71
Anna Waller26100.71
Jeremy J. Yang27434.62
Ajit Jadhav28101.38
Tudor I Oprea2935946.89
Rajarshi Guha3044234.84