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MSdb: An integrated expression atlas of human musculoskeletal system
Ruonan Tian1,2, Ziwei Xue1,2, Dengfeng Ruan1,3
1Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310058, China.
Abstract:
The global prevalence and burden of musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders are immense. Advancements in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have generated vast amounts of data, accelerating the research of pathological mechanisms and the development of therapeutic approaches for MSK disorders. However, scattered datasets across various repositories complicate uniform analysis and comparison. Here, we introduce MSdb, a database for visualization and integrated analysis of next-generation sequencing data from human musculoskeletal system, along with manually curated patient phenotype data. MSdb provides various types of analysis, including sample-level browsing of metadata information, gene/miRNA expression, and single-cell RNA-seq dataset. In addition, MSdb also allows integrated analysis for cross-samples and cross-omics analysis, including customized differentially expressed gene/microRNA analysis, microRNA-gene network, scRNA-seq cross-sample/disease integration, and gene regulatory network analysis. Overall, systematic categorizing, standardized processing, and freely accessible knowledge features MSdb a valuable resource for MSK research community.
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