ROSPath : (An Intergrated Database for Reactive Oxygen Species-mediated Signaling Pathway)

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Progress in understanding complex signaling pathways and networks has been hampered by the current lack of a formal and structured collation of the available information, in a format suitable for analysis via software tools. In order to facilitate the organization. and understanding of such complex network of information, it is essential to have a formal means to represent and analyze cellular pathways. We have defined a formal ontology for cell-signaling events that allows us to describe these cellular pathways at various levels of abstractions. Using this formal representation, ROSPath(Reactive Oxygen Species related signaling Pathway) database system has been implemented and made available on the web(http://rospath.ewha.ac.kr). ROSPath is a database system for reactive oxygen species(ROS)-mediated cell signaling pathways and signaling processes in molecular detail, that facilitates a comprehensive understanding of the regulatory mechanisms in signaling pathways. ROSPath includes growth factor-, stress- and cytokine-induced signaling. It is a web-based structured repository of information on the signaling pathways of interest and provides a means for managing data produced by high-throughput tools such as proteomics and genomics. It also provides effective and flexible tools for querying, displaying and analyzing pathways, thus providing an integrated web environment for visualizing and manipulating ROS-mediated cell-signaling events.