ORDB, HORDE, ODORactor and other on-line knowledge resources of olfactory receptor-odorant interactions

Luis Marenco, Rixin Wang, Robert McDougal, Tsviya Olender, Michal Twik, Elspeth Bruford, Xinyi Liu, Jian Zhang, Doron Lancet, Gordon Shepherd, Chiquito Crasto

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Abstract

We present here an exploration of the evolution of three well-established, web-based resources dedicated to the dissemination of information related to olfactory receptors (ORs) and their functional ligands, odorants. These resources are: the Olfactory Receptor Database (ORDB), the Human Olfactory Data Explorer (HORDE) and ODORactor. ORDB is a repository of genomic and proteomic information related to ORs and other chemosensory receptors, such as taste and pheromone receptors. Three companion databases closely integrated with ORDB are OdorDB, ORModelDB and OdorMapDB; these resources are part of the SenseLab suite of databases (http://senselab.med.yale.edu). HORDE (http://genome.weizmann.ac.il/horde/) is a semi-automatically populated database of the OR repertoires of human and several mammals. ODORactor (http://mdl.shsmu.edu.cn/ODORactor/) provides information related to OR-odorant interactions from the perspective of the odorant. All three resources are connected to each other via web-links.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberbaw132
JournalDatabase
Volume2016
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

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