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Applications, Representation, and Management of Signaling Pathway Information: Introduction to the SigPath Project

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This chapter reviews current approaches for managing signaling pathway information. After a brief introduction to signaling pathways and their computational uses in support of biomedical research, the chapter covers the data representation paradigms currently used to store and compute information about signaling pathways. File formats, ontologies, and databases are considered and compared. The chapter includes a description of the SigPath project, which is an information management system for signaling pathway information.

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  1. Institute for Computational Biomedicine and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

    Eliza Chan & Fabien Campagne

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  1. Eliza Chan
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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

    Sangdun Choi PhD

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Chan, E., Campagne, F. (2007). Applications, Representation, and Management of Signaling Pathway Information: Introduction to the SigPath Project. In: Choi, S. (eds) Introduction to Systems Biology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-531-2_19

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