The Monarch Initiative Explained

Description:	Bioinformatics database of genetic disease data
The Monarch Initiative
Scope:	genotype, phenotype, variant, disease, species
Organism:	Metazoa
Citation:	Mungall et al. 2017
Url:	https://monarchinitiative.org
Released:	July 12, 2015

The Monarch Initiative^[1] is a large scale bioinformatics web resource focused on leveraging existing biomedical knowledge to connect genotypes with phenotypes in an effort to aid research that combats genetic diseases.Monarch does this by integrating multi-species genotype, phenotype, genetic variant and disease knowledge from various existing biomedical data resources into a centralized and structured database. While this integration process has been traditionally done manually by basic researchers and clinicians on a case-by-case basis, The Monarch Initiative provides an aggregated and structured collection of data and tools that make biomedical knowledge exploration more efficient and effective.

Mondo ontology

Mondo ontology is product of the Monarch Initiative. It provides ontology for diseases and disorders, both rare and common.^[2]

External links

• Mouse Genome Informatics
• Zebrafish Information Network
• WormBase database of nematode biology
• FlyBase
• International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
• Mouse Phenome Database
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals
• ClinVar
• Mendelian Inheritance in Man
• ORPHANET
• Protein ANalysis THrough Evolutionary Relationships Classification System
• Coriell Institute for Medical Research
• Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
• Human Phenotype Ontology
• Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
• MyGene.info
• National Center for Biotechnology Information
• BioGRID
• GWAS Catalog
• AnimalQTLdb
• Ensembl database of automatically annotated genomic data
• Gene Ontology Database
• Gene Reviews
• HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee
• Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Centers
• Reactome - a curated knowledgebase of biological pathways
• Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP)
• STRING

Notes and References

1. Mungall. Christopher J.. McMurry. Julie A.. Köhler. Sebastian. Balhoff. James P.. Borromeo. Charles. Brush. Matthew. Carbon. Seth. Conlin. Tom. Dunn. Nathan. 2017-01-04. The Monarch Initiative: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species. Nucleic Acids Research. 45. D1. D712–D722. 10.1093/nar/gkw1128. 1362-4962. 5210586. 27899636.
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