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. 2009 Jan 1;25(1):141-3.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn590. Epub 2008 Nov 13.

CRONOS: the cross-reference navigation server

Brigitte Waegele  1 , Irmtraud Dunger-Kaltenbach, Gisela Fobo, Corinna Montrone, H-Werner Mewes, Andreas Ruepp
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CRONOS: the cross-reference navigation server

Brigitte Waegele et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Cross-mapping of gene and protein identifiers between different databases is a tedious and time-consuming task. To overcome this, we developed CRONOS, a cross-reference server that contains entries from five mammalian organisms presented by major gene and protein information resources. Sequence similarity analysis of the mapped entries shows that the cross-references are highly accurate. In total, up to 18 different identifier types can be used for identification of cross-references. The quality of the mapping could be improved substantially by exclusion of ambiguous gene and protein names which were manually validated. Organism-specific lists of ambiguous terms, which are valuable for a variety of bioinformatics applications like text mining are available for download.

Availability: CRONOS is freely available to non-commercial users at http://mips.gsf.de/genre/proj/cronos/index.html, web services are available at http://mips.gsf.de/CronosWSService/CronosWS?wsdl.

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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Quality of the mapping with and without ambiguous gene names and protein names. The sequence identity of the mapped entries from human (Swiss-Prot and RefSeq) was calculated and pooled in fractions of 0–5%, 5–10% sequence identity etc. The plot shows the fraction of the mapped entries plotted against the sequence identity of these entries.
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