title: PhenOMIM: an OMIM-based secondary database purported for phenotypic comparison.
abstract: Phenotypic comparison may provide crucial information for obtaining insights into molecular interactions underlying various diseases. However, few attempts have been made to systematically analyze the phenotypes of hereditary disorders, mainly owing to the poor quality of text descriptions and lack of a unified system of descriptors. Here we present a secondary database, PHENOMIM, for translating the phenotypic data obtained from the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database into a structured form. Moreover, a web interface has also been developed for visualizing the data and related information from the OMIM and PhenOMIM databases. The data is freely available online for reviewing and commenting purposes and can be found at http://faculty.neu.edu.cn/bmie/han/PhenOMIM/.
authors.affiliation: Sino-Dutch Biomedical and Information Engineering School, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110003, China. han@bmie.neu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Han J W
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: van Triest
authors.forename: Danqi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Xinglai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.forename: Shouliang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Jesse
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li-Ling
mesh_terms: D030541:Databases, Genetic; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype