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Hopkins med school professor starts online protein database
Issue date: 2/28/08
A Hopkins Medical School professor has pioneered the assembling of a free online database of human proteins for use by medical professionals worldwide.
Akhilesh Pandey teaches biological chemistry, pathology and oncology and also works at Hopkins's McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. In cooperation with the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, Pandey established the Human Proteinpedia, a resource similar to other Internet encyclopedias, allowing scientists to add and find information regarding proteins in the human body.
The database includes key statistics about the expression and modification of proteins and interactions among them.
Today, the Proteinpedia contains data about 15,230 human proteins from 71 laboratories around the world. Pandey and the Institute, a nonprofit organization that he founded in 2002, described in February's Nature Biotechnology how researchers can use the resource to its full potential.
Akhilesh Pandey teaches biological chemistry, pathology and oncology and also works at Hopkins's McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine. In cooperation with the Institute of Bioinformatics in Bangalore, India, Pandey established the Human Proteinpedia, a resource similar to other Internet encyclopedias, allowing scientists to add and find information regarding proteins in the human body.
The database includes key statistics about the expression and modification of proteins and interactions among them.
Today, the Proteinpedia contains data about 15,230 human proteins from 71 laboratories around the world. Pandey and the Institute, a nonprofit organization that he founded in 2002, described in February's Nature Biotechnology how researchers can use the resource to its full potential.
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