title: Exposome-Explorer: a manually-curated database on biomarkers of exposure to dietary and environmental factors.
abstract: Exposome-Explorer (http://exposome-explorer.iarc.fr) is the first database dedicated to biomarkers of exposure to environmental risk factors. It contains detailed information on the nature of biomarkers, their concentrations in various human biospecimens, the study population where measured and the analytical techniques used for measurement. It also contains correlations with external exposure measurements and data on biological reproducibility over time. The data in Exposome-Explorer was manually collected from peer-reviewed publications and organized to make it easily accessible through a web interface for in-depth analyses. The database and the web interface were developed using the Ruby on Rails framework. A total of 480 publications were analyzed and 10 510 concentration values in blood, urine and other biospecimens for 692 dietary and pollutant biomarkers were collected. Over 8000 correlation values between dietary biomarker levels and food intake as well as 536 values of biological reproducibility over time were also compiled. Exposome-Explorer makes it easy to compare the performance between biomarkers and their fields of application. It should be particularly useful for epidemiologists and clinicians wishing to select panels of biomarkers that can be used in biomonitoring studies or in exposome-wide association studies, thereby allowing them to better understand the etiology of chronic diseases.
authors.affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Nutrition and Metabolism Section, Biomarkers Group, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, F-69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Neveu
authors.affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Nutrition and Metabolism Section, Biomarkers Group, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, F-69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moussy
authors.affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Nutrition and Metabolism Section, Biomarkers Group, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, F-69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: Héloïse
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rouaix
authors.affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Nutrition and Metabolism Section, Biomarkers Group, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, F-69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wedekind
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada.
authors.forename: Allison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pon
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada.
authors.forename: Craig
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Knox
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E8, Canada.
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Wishart
authors.affiliation: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Nutrition and Metabolism Section, Biomarkers Group, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, F-69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France scalberta@iarc.fr.
authors.forename: Augustin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scalbert
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004032:Diet; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D057386:Search Engine; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D064878:Web Browser
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers