OUGene database is about disease-associated overexpressed or underexpressed genes. It contains total 41,269 unique associations with 81,974 support sentences from 56,442 articles between 7,238 over- or under-expressed genes and 1,480 diseases, covering all important therapeutic areas. It also provides a easy-of-use web interface for researchers to analyze, download and visualize their associated network.

Flowchart of database OUGene

How to use OUGene web interface

1. It firstly retrieves list of gene and disease candidates for rough input query by users, then users can select gene and disease of interest.

2. It will provide detailed association information for selected over- or under-expressed gene and disease, and their corresponding association network.