Journal article
Vesiclepedia: A Compendium for Extracellular Vesicles with Continuous Community Annotation
H Kalra, RJ Simpson, H Ji, E Aikawa, P Altevogt, P Askenase, VC Bond, FE Borràs, X Breakefield, V Budnik, E Buzas, G Camussi, A Clayton, E Cocucci, JM Falcon-Perez, S Gabrielsson, YS Gho, D Gupta, HC Harsha, A Hendrix Show all
Plos Biology | Published : 2012
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Abstract
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membraneous vesicles released by a variety of cells into their microenvironment. Recent studies have elucidated the role of EVs in intercellular communication, pathogenesis, drug, vaccine and gene-vector delivery, and as possible reservoirs of biomarkers. These findings have generated immense interest, along with an exponential increase in molecular data pertaining to EVs. Here, we describe Vesiclepedia, a manually curated compendium of molecular data (lipid, RNA, and protein) identified in different classes of EVs from more than 300 independent studies published over the past several years. Even though databases are indispensable resources for the scientific..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a NH&MRC fellowship (1016599) and LIMS fellowship to SM. Part of tool development for data upload into Vesiclepedia was funded by the eResearch Office at La Trobe University with programming support from the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.