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. 2020 Jun 2;18:1414–1428. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.05.017

Table 1.

A table of databases that used a form of manual curation to populate entries. Reported number of entities and relationships are relative to the time of publication.

Database [Reference] Short Description Number of Entries Entity Types Relationship Types Method of Population
BioGrid [52] A database for major model organisms. It contains genetic and proteomic information. 572,084 Genes, Proteins Protein-Protein interactions Semi-automatic methods
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database [53] A database that contains manually curated chemical-gene-disease interactions and relationships. 2,429,689 Chemicals (Drugs), Genes, Diseases Drug-Genes, Drug-Disease, Disease-Gene mappings Manual curation and Automated systems
Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database [54] Manually curated database that contains information about the molecular basis of antimicrobial resistance. 174,443 Drugs, Genes, Variants Drug-Gene, Drug-Variant mappings Manual curation
COSMIC [30] A database that contains high resolution human cancer genetic information. 35,946,704 Genes, Variants, Tumor Types Gene-Variant Mappings Manual Curation
Entrez-Gene [55] NCBI’s Gene annotation database that contains information pertaining to genes, gene’s organism source, phenotypes etc. 7,883,114 Genes, Species and Phenotypes Gene-Phenotypes and Genes-Species mappings Semi-automated curation
OMIM [56] A database that contains phenotype and genotype information 25,153 Genes, Phenotypes Gene-Phenotype mappings Manual Curation
PharmGKB [57] A database that contains genetic, phenotypic, and clinical information related to pharmacogenomic studies. 43,112 Drugs, Genes, Phenotypes, Variants, Pathways Gene-Phenotypes, Pathway-Drugs, Gene-Variants, Gene-Pathways Manual Curation and Automated Methods
UniProt [58] A protein–protein interaction database that contains proteomic information. 560,823 Proteins, Protein sequences Protein-Protein interactions Manual and Automated Curation