Information retrieval of human genes
In the last few years, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have become an integral part of everyday life, due to their convenience, affordability and functional utility that includes telephone calls, social media, a news source, map location finder, and online banking and shopping.
Now, apps are being developed in the field of bioinformatics. GeneStoryTeller, a mobile application for Android platforms, allows users to instantly retrieve information regarding any recorded human gene, derived from eight publicly available databases, as a summary story. Complementary information regarding gene-drugs interactions, functional annotation and disease associations for each selected gene is also provided in the gene story.
GeneStoryTeller dynamically updates its content via a network connection but does not require an internet connection to check data.
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SOURCE: Database (Oxford). 2015 Jun 8;2015:bav048. doi: 10.1093/database/bav048. Print 2015. © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. PMID: 26055097 [PubMed – in process] PMCID: PMC4460399
GeneStoryTeller: a mobile app for quick and comprehensive information retrieval of human genes.
Eleftheriou SV1, Bourdakou MM1, Athanasiadis EI2, Spyrou GM3.
- 1Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Soranou Ephessiou 4, 115 27 Athens, Greece, and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, 15784 Ilissia, Greece Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Soranou Ephessiou 4, 115 27 Athens, Greece, and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, 15784 Ilissia, Greece.
- 2Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Soranou Ephessiou 4, 115 27 Athens, Greece, and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, 15784 Ilissia, Greece.
- 3Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Soranou Ephessiou 4, 115 27 Athens, Greece, and Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, 15784 Ilissia, Greece [email protected].