Research Article

Syn-Lethality: An Integrative Knowledge Base of Synthetic Lethality towards Discovery of Selective Anticancer Therapies

Table 1

Representative entries for human cancer Syn-Lethality database.

Representative entries Contents

SL pairs information Gene names A and B, SL pairs mechanism, and related pathway
SL pairs annotation Gene symbol, full name, Entrez ID, KEGG-link
Type of gene alterations Mutation, activation, inactivation, overexpression, deficient
Type of gene involved
in SL pairs
Tumor suppressor gene, oncogene
Data source Human cancer, inferred from yeast
Cancer type All kinds of cancer
Screening methodsshRNA, siRNA, anticancer compound
The literature search PMID