Table 2.
Comparison of BiologicalNetworks/HostPathogen database with public host-pathogen interaction resources
| PHI-base | PHIDIAS | NCBI Influenza db | PIG | IVDB | Cytoscape | BiologicalNetworks/HostPathogenDB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scalability* | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Data integration engine | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Interaction and Pathways data/analysis | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes |
| Chemicals/Drug Discovery | no | no | no | no | no | yes | yes |
| 3D structure | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Sequence annotation/search | no/yes | yes/yes | yes/yes | no/yes | no/no | no/no | yes/yes |
| Phylogenetic analysis | no | no | yes | no | yes | no | yes |
| Regulatory regions analysis | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Orthology analysis | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Phylogeoraphy | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Microarray data/analysis | no/no | yes/no | yes/yes | yes/no | no/no | yes/yes | yes/yes |
| Web search/ Research environment |
yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | no/yes | yes/yes |
*Scalability to the number of integrated data sources.