title: CellLineNavigator: a workbench for cancer cell line analysis.
abstract: The CellLineNavigator database, freely available at http://www.medicalgenomics.org/celllinenavigator, is a web-based workbench for large scale comparisons of a large collection of diverse cell lines. It aims to support experimental design in the fields of genomics, systems biology and translational biomedical research. Currently, this compendium holds genome wide expression profiles of 317 different cancer cell lines, categorized into 57 different pathological states and 28 individual tissues. To enlarge the scope of CellLineNavigator, the database was furthermore closely linked to commonly used bioinformatics databases and knowledge repositories. To ensure easy data access and search ability, a simple data and an intuitive querying interface were implemented. It allows the user to explore and filter gene expression, focusing on pathological or physiological conditions. For a more complex search, the advanced query interface may be used to query for (i) differentially expressed genes; (ii) pathological or physiological conditions; or (iii) gene names or functional attributes, such as Kyoto Encyclopaedia of Genes and Genomes pathway maps. These queries may also be combined. Finally, CellLineNavigator allows additional advanced analysis of differentially regulated genes by a direct link to the Database for Annotation, Visualization and Integrated Discovery (DAVID) Bioinformatics Resources.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine I of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Langenbeck Strasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krupp
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Itzel
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maass
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hildebrandt
authors.forename: Peter R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Galle
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Teufel
mesh_terms: D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D059467:Transcriptome