title: GPSDB: a new database for synonyms expansion of gene and protein names.
abstract: We present a new database, GPSDB (Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase) which collects gene/protein names, in a species specific way, from 14 main biological resources. A web-based search interface gives access to the database: given a gene/protein name, it retrieves all synonyms for this entity and queries Medline with a set of user-selected terms.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  GPSDB is freely available from http://biomint.oefai.at/
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  johann@oefai.at.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CMU-Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Violaine
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pillet
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zehnder
authors.forename: Alexander K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Seewald
authors.forename: Anne-Lise
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Veuthey
authors.forename: Johann
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Petrak
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016239:MEDLINE; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D011506:Proteins / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins