Journal article

EVpedia: A community web portal for extracellular vesicles research

DK Kim, J Lee, SR Kim, DS Choi, YJ Yoon, JH Kim, G Go, D Nhung, K Hong, SC Jang, SH Kim, KS Park, OY Kim, HT Park, JH Seo, E Aikawa, M Baj-Krzyworzeka, BWM Van Balkom, M Belting, L Blanc Show all

Bioinformatics | Published : 2015

Abstract

Motivation: Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are spherical bilayered proteolipids, harboring various bioactive molecules. Due to the complexity of the vesicular nomenclatures and components, online searches for EV-related publications and vesicular components are currently challenging. Results: We present an improved version of EVpedia, a public database for EVs research. This community web portal contains a database of publications and vesicular components, identification of orthologous vesicular components, bioinformatic tools and a personalized function. EVpedia includes 6879 publications, 172 080 vesicular components from 263 high-throughput datasets, and has been accessed more than 65 000 t..

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Grants

Awarded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute


Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIP) [No. 2014-023004], the Ministry of Health and Welfare grant funded by the Korea government [No. A120273] and a grant from KRIBB Research Initiative Program. D.-K. K is supported by a National Junior Research Fellowship [No. 2014-048579] and Y. J. Y by BK21 PLUS program [10Z20130012243] funded by Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea.