An impressive amount of work has gone into creating protein and protein expression resources in Europe, each of which contains valuable information for biomedical research. Navigating seamlessly between these resources would be invaluable for scientists who need to make informed decisions about their research into new drug targets and are exploring links between different proteins in healthy and diseased tissues.
In this action, the Swedish ELIXIR Node worked with EMBL-EBI to make the Human Protein Atlas interoperable with PRIDE, the proteomics resource; InterPro, the database of protein families and motifs; and the Gene Expression Atlas. These well-established resources underpin R&D into many important aspects of genetic diseases such as tissue specificity.