Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on November 7, 2008
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkn732
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INTERFEROME: the database of interferon regulated genes
1Center for Innate Immunity and Infectious Diseases, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, Clayton, and 2CRC for chronic inflammatory disease, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
*To whom correspondence should be addressed: Tel: +61 3 9594 7236; Fax: +61 3 9594 7211; Email: paul.hertzog{at}med.monash.edu.au
Correspondence may also be addressed to Shamith Samarajiwa. Email: shamith.samarajiwa{at}cancer.org.uk
Received August 15, 2008. Revised September 30, 2008. Accepted October 1, 2008.
INTERFEROME is an open access database of types I, II and III Interferon regulated genes (http://www.interferome.org) collected from analysing expression data sets of cells treated with IFNs. This database of interferon regulated genes integrates information from high-throughput experiments with annotation, ontology, orthologue sequences from 37 species, tissue expression patterns and gene regulatory information to enable a detailed investigation of the molecular mechanisms underlying IFN biology. INTERFEROME fulfils a need in infection, immunity, development and cancer research by providing computational tools to assist in identifying interferon signatures in gene lists generated by high-throughput expression technologies, and their potential molecular and biological consequences.