ChemProt: a disease chemical biology database

Systems pharmacology is an emergent area that studies drug action across multiple scales of complexity, from molecular and cellular to tissue and organism levels. There is a critical need to develop network-based approaches to integrate the growing body of chemical biology knowledge with network biology. Here, we report ChemProt, a disease chemical biology database, which is based on a compilation of multiple chemical–protein annotation resources, as well as disease-associated protein– protein interactions (PPIs). We assembled more than 700 000 unique chemicals with biological annotation for 30 578 proteins. We gathered over 2-million chemical–protein interactions, which were integrated in a quality scored human PPI network of 428 429 interactions. The PPI network layer allows for studying disease and tissue specificity through each protein complex. ChemProt can assist in the in silico evaluation of environmental chemicals, natural products and approved drugs, as well as the sel...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Olivier Taboureau, Sonny Kim Nielsen, Karine Audouze, Nils Weinhold, Daniel Edsgärd, Francisco S. Roque, Irene Kouskoumvekaki, Alina Bora, Ramona Curpan, Thomas Skøt Jensen, Søren Brunak, Tudor I. Oprea
• Keywords: Endocrine Disruptor, NAR 2011, Organism Levels, Protein Protein Interactions