Title

DAVID gene ID conversion tool

Authors

Da Wei Huang^{1, #}, Brad T. Sherman^{1, #}, Robert Stephens², Michael W. Baseler³, H. Clifford Lane⁴, Richard A. Lempicki^{1, *}

Affiliation

¹Laboratory of Immunopathogenesis and Bioinformatics; ²Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, MD 21702; ³Clinical Services Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, MD 21702; ⁴Laboratory of Immuno-regulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892; ^#These authors contributed equally to this study.

Email

rlempicki@mail.nih.gov; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Software

Date

received June 30, 2008; accepted July 05, 2008; published July 30, 2008

Abstract

Our current biological knowledge is spread over many independent bioinformatics databases where many different types of gene and protein identifiers are used. The heterogeneous and redundant nature of these identifiers limits data analysis across different bioinformatics resources. It is an even more serious bottleneck of data analysis for larger datasets, such as gene lists derived from microarray and proteomic experiments. The DAVID Gene ID Conversion Tool (DICT), a web-based application, is able to convert user's input gene or gene product identifiers from one type to another in a more comprehensive and high-throughput manner with a uniquely enhanced ID-ID mapping database.

http://david.abcc.ncifcrf.gov/conversion.jsp

Keywords

gene; protein; microarray; proteome; database

Citation

Huang et al., Bioinformation 2(10): 428-430 (2008)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.