CD-CODE: Crowdsourcing Condensate Database and Encyclopedia

Overview

Journal Nat Methods

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Pathology

Date 2023 Apr 6

PMID 37024650

Authors

Nadia Rostam

Soumyadeep Ghosh

Chi Fung Willis Chow

Anna Hadarovich

Cedric Landerer

Rajat Ghosh

HongKee Moon

Lena Hersemann

Diana M Mitrea

Isaac A Klein

Anthony A Hyman

Agnes Toth-Petroczy

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Abstract

The discovery of biomolecular condensates transformed our understanding of intracellular compartmentalization of molecules. To integrate interdisciplinary scientific knowledge about the function and composition of biomolecular condensates, we developed the crowdsourcing condensate database and encyclopedia ( cd-code.org ). CD-CODE is a community-editable platform, which includes a database of biomolecular condensates based on the literature, an encyclopedia of relevant scientific terms and a crowdsourcing web application. Our platform will accelerate the discovery and validation of biomolecular condensates, and facilitate efforts to understand their role in disease and as therapeutic targets.

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