VeryGene is developed as a curated, web-accessible centralized database for the annotation of tissue-specific/enriched genes (Yang et al. (2011)).
It currently contains entries for 3960 human genes covering 128 normal tissue/cell types compiled from the expression profiling of two large microarray data sets from Liang et al. (2006) and Su et al. (2004).
It brings together much-needed information on preferred tissue/subcellular localization, functional annotation, pathway, mammalian phenotype, related diseases and targeting drug associated with any of these genes as a result of data integration from multiple sources. Information can be searched through gene, tissue and disease views and search result can be downloaded easily.
The dataset was created with the internal functions
.VeryGene and MySQLtoSQLite, to import the
data from the MySQL dump available online.
Yang X, Ye Y, Wang G, Huang H, Yu D and Liang S (2011).
"VeryGene: linking tissue-specific genes to diseases,
drugs, and beyond for knowledge discovery."
_Physiological genomics_, *43*(8), pp. 457-60. ISSN
1531-2267,