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. 2018 Dec 12;11(3):e1443. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1443

Table 1.

Selected databases and resources for variant interpretation in the context of biological interactions

Database Data Web address
Variant databases
1000 Genomes Whole genome and variants of >2,500 individuals http://www.internationalgenome.org
ClinVar Human variants with clinical significance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar
COSMIC Catalog of somatic mutations in cancer https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic
dbSNP Small variants from several organisms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/snp
GWAS catalog Disease‐associated variants from published GWAS https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas
SwissVar Annotated single amino acid variants https://swissvar.expasy.org
Network resources
BioPlex Human PPIs from AP‐MS http://bioplex.hms.harvard.edu
HuRI Human PPIs from Y2H http://interactome.baderlab.org/
IntAct Manually curated PPIs from literature https://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact
iRefIndex Integration of PPIs from many databases http://irefindex.org
KEGG Reference database for biochemical pathways https://www.genome.jp/kegg
NDEx Platform for sharing and analyzing biological networks http://www.ndexbio.org
Pathway Commons Human PPIs and pathways from different sources http://www.pathwaycommons.org
Reactome Integration of PPIs and pathways from many databases https://reactome.org
STRING Experimental and predicted PPIs https://string‐db.org
Disease/phenotype association and classification
CTD Curated gene and chemical‐phenotype associations http://ctdbase.org
Disease ontology Hierarchical ontology for description of diseases. http://disease‐ontology.org
DisGeNet Resource of variant and gene association to disease http://www.disgenet.org
dSysMap Maps of disease mutations on the structural interactome https://dsysmap.irbbarcelona.org
HPO Ontology for the description of phenotypic abnormalities https://hpo.jax.org
OMIM Database of genes implicated in Mendelian disorders https://omim.org

Note. AP‐MS: affinity purification‐mass spectroscopy; PPI: protein–protein interaction; Y2H: yeast two‐hybrid.