Marios Tomazou, Marilena M Bourdakou, Eleni Nicolaidou, Grigoris Georgiou, Kyriaki Savva, Efi Athieniti, Styliana Menelaou, Sotiroula Afxenti, George M Spyrou
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Abstract
H-SPAR DB is a comprehensive database designed to support space health research by providing a unified platform for data integration, analysis, and interpretation. The database simplifies the complex workflows associated with spaceflight-related biology studies by combining curated molecular lists, transcriptomic datasets from NASA's GeneLab, and user-uploaded data into a streamlined, user-friendly interface. H-SPAR DB enables researchers to perform differential expression analysis, set operations, and association analyses while also generating integrative knowledge graphs around a space-related biological theme. The platform reduces the time required for data gathering and processing by offering a single platform for data exploration, analysis, and visualization. By integrating interactive visualizations and data tables, H-SPAR DB facilitates the interpretation of results, ultimately enhancing the efficiency of space biology research and fostering discoveries that address human health challenges in space. Researchers can access H-SPAR DB freely at https://bioinformatics.cing.ac.cy/H-SPARDB/ without login or other requirements.
期刊介绍:
Huge volumes of primary data are archived in numerous open-access databases, and with new generation technologies becoming more common in laboratories, large datasets will become even more prevalent. The archiving, curation, analysis and interpretation of all of these data are a challenge. Database development and biocuration are at the forefront of the endeavor to make sense of this mounting deluge of data.
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation provides an open access platform for the presentation of novel ideas in database research and biocuration, and aims to help strengthen the bridge between database developers, curators, and users.