Monthly Archives: April 2012

Compound searches and their bio-activities in DistilBio

Posted on April 27, 2012 by preethi

In my previous posts, I had focused on queries for drugs, diseases and proteins using DistilBio. Apart from this, DistilBio also contains data on bioactive chemical compounds from databases like ChEMBL and ChEBI. Experimental data properties, assays, cell line information … Continue reading →

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What’s new in DistilBio?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by preethi

The last few weeks have seen a lot of new features added in DistilBio. While looking at the queries run by users and based on user feedback, we realized that the following were areas for improvement Ability to filter, refine … Continue reading →

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Where does this piece of Data come from?

Posted on April 12, 2012 by preethi

DistilBio integrates data sets from various sources like Entrez Gene, Uniprot, DrugBank, PharmGKB, CTD, CHEMBL, protein interaction databases like IntAct, MINT etc. Each connection is backed by a data source. Let us look at an example to see how data … Continue reading →

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DistilBio featured in Semantic Web

Posted on April 6, 2012 by preethi

This week DistilBio was featured in semanticweb.com. The article discusses how bench biologists can leverage the wealth of information available across various datasets using DistilBio. “How does a user say what are the drugs used for Alzheimer’s disease and do … Continue reading →

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