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Table 2.

Authoritative database sources in Onto-Translate for different types of biological entities. A path is considered biologically valid if it either starts or ends in one of the authoritative sources. For instance, when converting from or to a gene ID, the path must start or end in Entrez Gene, respectively.

Biological entity	Authoritative source
Gene	Entrez Gene
Protein	UniProt
Protein structure	PDB
Nucleotide sequence	GenBank
Nucleotide sequence cluster	UniGene
Pathway	KEGG
Disease	OMIM