title: Renal Gene Expression Database (RGED): a relational database of gene expression profiles in kidney disease.
abstract: We present a bioinformatics database named Renal Gene Expression Database (RGED), which contains comprehensive gene expression data sets from renal disease research. The web-based interface of RGED allows users to query the gene expression profiles in various kidney-related samples, including renal cell lines, human kidney tissues and murine model kidneys. Researchers can explore certain gene profiles, the relationships between genes of interests and identify biomarkers or even drug targets in kidney diseases. The aim of this work is to provide a user-friendly utility for the renal disease research community to query expression profiles of genes of their own interest without the requirement of advanced computational skills.
  
  
  METHODS
  Website is implemented in PHP, R, MySQL and Nginx and freely available from http://rged.wall-eva.net.
  http://rged.wall-eva.net.
authors.affiliation: Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China.
authors.forename: Qingzhou
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China.
authors.forename: Xujiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China chlmei1954@126.com.
authors.forename: Changlin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mei
authors.affiliation: Kidney Institute of CPLA, Division of Nephrology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai 200003, China maozhiguo93@126.com.
authors.forename: Zhiguo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007668:Kidney / Q000378:metabolism*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D059467:Transcriptome