Professor Lee In-suk’s Research Team Unveils MouseNet v2,

World’s Largest Database of Gene Networks for Studying Laboratory Mice

—Published Online in Nucleic Acids Research  

A Yonsei research team, headed by Life Science and Biotechnology Professor Lee In-suk, has developed an improved mouse co-functional network, MouseNet v2, which covers 17,714 genes in mice and includes 788,080 links. This advanced network database, with its large amount of genomics data, marks a substantial improvement over the original MouseNet, which allowed only limited input data for network inferences. The results of the research were published January 4 in Nucleic Acids Research under the title “MouseNet v2: a database of gene networks for studying the laboratory mouse and eight other model vertebrates.” Eiru Kim, a PhD candidate in Yonsei’s Department of Biotechnology, was the lead author for the article.

MouseNet v2 is the most sophisticated database of its kind, and it should prove invaluable to investigators throughout the world who conduct various types of research with laboratory mice. MouseNet v2 is accessible online at http://www.inetbio.org/mousenet, and the server is located at Yonsei. The database can be used by anyone, and the research team anticipates that it will be particularly convenient for researchers concerned with many different types of diseases. 

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