GDB Human Genome Database

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GDB Human Genome Database
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captured		Genetic mapping data
Organisms Homo sapiens
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Primary citation PMID   2041809
Release date1989

The GDB Human Genome Database was a community curated collection of human genomic data. It was a key database in the Human Genome Project [1] [2] and was in service from 1989 to 2008.

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History

In 1989 the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provided funding to establish a central repository for human genetic mapping data. This project ultimately resulted in the creation of the GDB Human Genome DataBase in September 1990. [3] [4] In order to ensure a high degree of quality, records within GDB were subjected to a curation process by human genetics specialists, including the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. [5]

Established under the leadership of Peter Pearson and Dick Lucier, [6] GDB received financial support from the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health. [3] Located at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, GDB became a source of high quality mapping data which were made available both online as well as through numerous printed publications.[ citation needed ] The project was supported internationally by the EU, Japan, and other countries.

The GDB had several directors in its time. Peter Pearson, David T. Kingsbury, Stantley Letovsky, Peter Li, and A. Jamie Cuticchia.[ citation needed ]

Funds from the US Department of Energy that were previously allocated for GDB were transferred in 1998 due to the shift in emphasis in the human genome project. [7] However that same year, A. Jamie Cuticchia obtained funding from Canadian public and private sources to continue the operations of GDB. While the data curation continued to be performed at Johns Hopkins, GDB central operations were moved to The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [8] In November 2001, the HSC fired Cuticchia due to a dispute over the GDB website domain name. [7]

In 2003 RTI International became the new host for GDB where it continued to be maintained as a public resource; [9] GDB was closed in 2008 after control of the project reverted to Johns Hopkins. [10]

References

  1. ↑ "Human Genome News, September-December 1995: 7(3-4):15". web.ornl.gov.
  2. ↑ Guyer, M. S.; Collins, F. S. (21 November 1995). "How is the Human Genome Project doing, and what have we learned so far?". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92 (24): 10841–10848. Bibcode:1995PNAS...9210841G. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.24.10841 . PMC   40527 . PMID   7479895.
  3. 1 2 Cuticchia, A.Jamie; Fasman, Kenneth H.; Kingsbury, David T.; Robbins, Robert J.; Pearson, Peter L. (1993). "The GDB TM human genome data base anno 1993". Nucleic Acids Research. 21 (13): 3003–3006. doi:10.1093/nar/21.13.3003. PMC   309725 . PMID   8332522.
  4. ↑ Cuticchia, A.J. (27 Dec 1999). "Future vision of the GDB human genome database". Human Mutation. 15 (1): 62–67. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(200001)15:1<62::AID-HUMU13>3.0.CO;2-R . PMID   10612824. S2CID   25606440.
  5. ↑ Letovsky, S. (1 January 1998). "GDB: the Human Genome Database". Nucleic Acids Research. 26 (1): 94–99. doi: 10.1093/nar/26.1.94 . PMC   147203 . PMID   9399808.
  6. ↑ Pearson, P.L. (25 April 1991). "The genome data base (GDB)--a human gene mapping repository". Nucleic Acids Research. 19 (suppl): 2237–2239. doi:10.1093/nar/19.suppl.2237. PMC   331357 . PMID   2041809.
  7. 1 2 Bonetta, Laura (November 2001). "Sackings leave gene database floundering". Nature. 414 (6862): 384. Bibcode:2001Natur.414..384B. doi: 10.1038/35106703 . PMID   11719765.
  8. ↑ "Human Genome News Vol. 10, No. 1-2, February 1999". web.ornl.gov. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  9. ↑ Seewald, A.K. (2004). "Ranking for Medical Annotation: Investigating Performance, Local Search and Homonymy Recognition". Knowledge Exploration in Life Science Informatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 3303. pp. 109–123. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.117.8840 . doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30478-4_10. ISBN   978-3-540-23927-7.
  10. ↑ Galperin, M. Y.; Cochrane, G. R. (1 January 2009). "Nucleic Acids Research annual Database Issue and the NAR online Molecular Biology Database Collection in 2009". Nucleic Acids Research. 37 (Database): D1 –D4. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn942 . PMC   2686608 . PMID   19033364.
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