Rare disease relations through common genes and protein interactions

Abstract

ODCs (Orphan Disease Connections), available at http://csbg.cnb.csic.es/odcs, is a novel resource to explore potential molecular relations between rare diseases. These molecular relations have been established through the integration of disease susceptibility genes and human protein-protein interactions. The database currently contains 54,941 relations between 3032 diseases.

Keywords: Biomedical databases; Disease relations; Protein interactions; Rare diseases.