External Collection

  • Access to: Parkinson Disease Map
  • Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease in the world. Although many genetic and environmental factors contributing to the risk of PD have been identified, no unique causal mechanism is defined.

    Information on various aspects of PD pathogenesis is rapidly increasing and needs to be efficiently organized, so that the resulting data is available for exploration and analysis. To that end, LCSB, in the collaboration with the Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo (SBI), has developed the Parkinson’s disease (PD) map (Fujita et al.).

    The PD map is a manually curated knowledge repository established to describe molecular mechanisms of PD. It compiles literature-based information on PD into an easy to explore and freely accessible molecular interaction map and offers research-facilitating functionalities such as the overlay of experimental data and the identification of drug targets on the map.

    Fujita, K.A., Ostaszewski, M., Matsuoka, Y. et al. Integrating Pathways of Parkinson's Disease in a Molecular Interaction Map. Mol Neurobiol (2014) 49: 88.PMID