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Table 2.

Curated list of COVID-19-specific resources and repositories relevant to computational drug repurposing.

Resource/ data type Resource name Website Description Reference
COVID-19 platform CORD-19 https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge Scholarly articles on COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and other related coronaviruses, with a focus on natural language processing and other AI techniques 97
COVID-19 portfolio https://icite.od.nih.gov/covid19/search/ Publications and preprints on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
COVIDScholar https://covidscholar.org/ Search engine that utilizes natural language processing to aid in the search for COVID-19 articles
COVID-19 research explorer https://covid19-research-explorer.appspot.com/ Search engine for COVID-19 that operates on question-based searches
SPIKE-CORD https://spike.covid-19.apps.allenai.org/search/covid19 Search engine for CORD-19 which operates on query modes to perform extractive searches
Virus-CKB https://www.cbligand.org/g/virus-ckb Knowledgebase for research on COVID-19 and similar viral infections 123
SciSight https://scisight.apps.allenai.org/ Tool used to visualize the directions of the emerging literature network related to COVID-19
KnetMiner https://knetminer.org/COVID-19/ Search engine that aids in COVID-19 related search queries based on keywords, gene lists, and genomic regions
COVID-19 Primer https://covid19primer.com/dashboard Tool that uses natural language processing (NLP) to summarize research trends, news coverage, and social media discussions on the topic of COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
COVID-19 drug and gene set library https://maayanlab.cloud/covid19/ A collection of drug and gene sets related to COVID-19 research contributed by the community 35
CDC COVID-19 Databases and Journals https://www.cdc.gov/library/researchguides/2019novelcoronavirus/databasesjournals.html Compilation of selected databases and journals that can help researchers to find scholarly articles and data relating to COVID-19
LitCovid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/ A curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about SARS-CoV-2 124
iSearch COVID-19 portfolio https://icite.od.nih.gov/covid19/search/ An expert-curated database containing published papers and preprints
WHO COVID-19 research article database https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov A database gathering the latest international multilingual scientific findings and knowledge on COVID-19
COVID-KOP https://covidkop.renci.org/ Biomedical reasoning system for data collected about the COVID-19 pandemic, including information on drugs, literature co-occurrences and phenotypes 125
HIT-COVID https://akuko.io/post/covid-intervention-tracking Quantification of the effectiveness of public health measures on SARS-CoV-2 transmission 126
COVID Moonshot https://covid.postera.ai/covid Crowdsourced initiative to accelerate the development of a COVID-19 antiviral 127
CIDO http://www.ontobee.org/ontology/CIDO Community-based ontology that supports COVID-19 knowledge and data standardization, integration, sharing, and analysis 128
COVEX https://exbio.wzw.tum.de/covex/about Online network and systems medicine platform for data analysis that integrates virus–human interactions for SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-1 129
The COVIDome Project https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/ Collaborative effort to generate multidimensional datasets from biospecimens from COVID-19 patients and controls
NCBI SARS-CoV-2 Resource https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sars-cov-2/ An expert-curated database which was developed to increase the useability of existing resources
PDBe COVID-19 https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/covid-19 3D-structure data for large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, that are specific to SARS-CoV-2 130
Compound database ZINC15 https://zinc15.docking.org/ 3D formats of purchasable compounds and their different properties, such as rings, substances, tranches, and patterns 45
Drug response PharmGKB https://www.pharmgkb.org/ Data on the impact of genetic variations on drug response and annotated information on drugs 131
Drugs and drug targets IUPHAR/BPS guide to pharmacology https://www.guidetopharmacology.org/ Information on drug targets, and on prescription and experimental medications that act on them
DrugBank https://www.drugbank.ca/ Information on drugs and their chemical and pharmacological properties; this resource also contains information on drug targets and their sequences, structures, and pathways 132
Drug Target Commons Database https://drugtargetcommons.fimm.fi/ Bioactivity data for drugs and their targets 84
Drugs Drug repurposing for COVID-19 http://covid19.md.biu.ac.il/ Database of existing drugs that have potential or proven efficacy against SARS-CoV-2
Binding affinities BindingDB https://www.bindingdb.org/bind/index.jsp Information on the binding affinities between molecular entities and protein targets 83
Gene GenBank https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ Publicly available DNA sequences 133
EMBL-ENA https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena Nucleotide sequencing information 134
GeneCards https://www.genecards.org/ Annotated and predicted human genes 135
CMAP https://www.broadinstitute.org/connectivity-map-cmap Gene expression profiles and disease-associated genes 136
MSigDB https://www.gsea-msigdb.org/gsea/msigdb/index.jsp Annotated gene sets that can be utilized with Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) software 137
Protein UniProt https://covid-19.uniprot.org/uniprotkb?query=* Information on protein sequence and annotation of SARS-CoV-2 138
Swiss-Prot https://www.uniprot.org/statistics/Swiss-Prot Part of UniProt, this resource includes protein sequences and their functional information 139
PDB https://www.rcsb.org/ 3D structure data for large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids 130
PRIDE https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ Mass spectrometry proteomics and genomic data 140
CORUM http://mips.helmholtz-muenchen.de/corum/ Protein complexes, protein subunits, literature references, and experimental reports 141
Multi type KEGG https://www.genome.jp/kegg Information on drugs, genes, proteins and pathways 142