CRYPTOMICSDB: Revealing the Molecular Landscape of Cryptococcosis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Selection of Published Scientific Literature
2.2. Data Extraction
2.3. Gene Ontology Analysis
2.4. Webpage Construction
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Gene ID | Gene ID According to UniProt |
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Gene or protein name | Official gene or protein name for each entry |
Log2 fold change | Criteria applied to define as differentially expressed gene or protein |
p-value | Statistical criteria applied to define as differentially expressed gene or protein |
Organism | Organism described as a sample in the study, for example, Mus musculus |
Cryptococcus species | Complex of species causing infection: Cryptococcus neoformans or Cryptococcus gattii |
Differential expression | Gene or protein expression according to the parameters described in the study |
Comparison between groups | For example, comparing infected vs. control groups |
Method | Transcriptomics or proteomics |
Approach | Technique applied according to the method described in the paper |
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Calegari-Alves, Y.P.; Innocente-Alves, C.; Costa, R.P.; Faustino, A.M.; Farias, K.S.S.; Boiani, M.; Gonçalves, B.S.A.; Dorn, M.; Beys-da-Silva, W.O.; Santi, L. CRYPTOMICSDB: Revealing the Molecular Landscape of Cryptococcosis. J. Fungi 2025, 11, 425. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11060425
Calegari-Alves YP, Innocente-Alves C, Costa RP, Faustino AM, Farias KSS, Boiani M, Gonçalves BSA, Dorn M, Beys-da-Silva WO, Santi L. CRYPTOMICSDB: Revealing the Molecular Landscape of Cryptococcosis. Journal of Fungi. 2025; 11(6):425. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11060425
Chicago/Turabian StyleCalegari-Alves, Yohana Porto, Camila Innocente-Alves, Renata Pereira Costa, Aline Martins Faustino, Karyn Scheffler Schirma Farias, Mateus Boiani, Bruno Samuel Ardenghi Gonçalves, Marcio Dorn, Walter Orlando Beys-da-Silva, and Lucélia Santi. 2025. "CRYPTOMICSDB: Revealing the Molecular Landscape of Cryptococcosis" Journal of Fungi 11, no. 6: 425. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11060425
APA StyleCalegari-Alves, Y. P., Innocente-Alves, C., Costa, R. P., Faustino, A. M., Farias, K. S. S., Boiani, M., Gonçalves, B. S. A., Dorn, M., Beys-da-Silva, W. O., & Santi, L. (2025). CRYPTOMICSDB: Revealing the Molecular Landscape of Cryptococcosis. Journal of Fungi, 11(6), 425. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof11060425