EBD: an eye biomarker database

Xueli Zhang, Lingcong Kong, Shunming Liu, Xiayin Zhang, Xianwen Shang, Zhuoting Zhu, Yu Huang, Shuo Ma, Ha Jason, Katerina V. Kiburg, Chunwen Zheng, Yunyan Hu, Cong Li, Guanrong Wu, Yingying Liang, Mengxia He, Yan Wang, Xiaohe Bai, Danli Shi, Wei WangChi Zhang, Ke Zhao, Haining Yuan, Guang Hu, Yijun Hu, Huiying Liang, Honghua Yu, Lei Zhang, Mingguang He

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Abstract

Motivation: Many ophthalmic disease biomarkers have been identified through comprehensive multiomics profiling, and hold significant potential in advancing the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of diseases. Meanwhile, the eye itself serves as a natural biomarker for several systemic diseases including neurological, renal, and cardiovascular systems. We aimed to collect and standardize this eye biomarkers information and construct the eye biomarker database (EBD) to provide ophthalmologists with a platform to search, analyze, and download these eye biomarker data. Results: In this study, we present the EBD <http://www.eyeseeworld.com/ebd/index.html>, a world-first online compilation comprising 889 biomarkers for 26 ocular diseases and 939 eye biomarkers for 181 systemic diseases. The EBD also includes the information of 78 “nonbiomarkers”—the objects that have been proven cannot be biomarkers. Biological function and network analysis were conducted for these ocular disease biomarkers, and several hub pathways and common network topology characteristics were newly identified, which may promote future ocular disease biomarker discovery and characterizes the landscape of biomarkers for eye diseases at the pathway and network level. The EBD is expected to yield broader utility among developmental biologists and clinical scientists in and outside of the eye field by assisting in the identification of biomarkers linked to eye disorders and related systemic diseases.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-8
Number of pages8
JournalBioinformatics
Volume39
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2023
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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