Dictionary Update

After creating a Dictionary the user can update the terms and synonyms from several different databases (using their flat-files) or the internal Biowarehouse database. This operation allows the user to add contents to a dictionary, which can come from several sources.

Loading a Dictionary to the clipboard:

To have access to dictionary operations, first the user has to load the dictionary data-type to the clipboard by selecting dictionary bottom ( red circle ). Now in clipboard are available dictionary data-type (red arrow).

Update Dictionary:

For update dictionary content press left mouse bottom on Dictionary data-type (image up).

After appears Dictionary Update GUI and can select:

• Database Flat Files type (see Flat Files Supported ).
  • Entity Selected
• Flat File (Select files to access data)
• Organism - Some Flat File options than could select organism for entity selection

Flat Files Supported:

Currently, the system supports the following sources:

• BioWarehouse integrated databases (http://biowarehouse.ai.sri.com/);
• BioCyc flatfile(http://biocyc.org/download.shtml) ;
• ChEBI flatfiles (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/downloadsForward.do);
• NCBI Taxnonomy flatfiles (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/);
• UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot flatfiles (http://www.uniprot.org/downloads);
• MGI Entrez Genes flatfiles (ftp://ftp.informatics.jax.org/pub/reports/index.html).

In the end of this operation the user can view a Resources_Update_Report