Ullah S, Ullah A, Rahman W, Ullah F, Khan SB, Ahmad G, Ijaz M, Gao T. An innovative user-friendly platform for Covid-19 pandemic databases and resources.
COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE UPDATE 2021;
1:100031. [PMID:
34604832 PMCID:
PMC8465267 DOI:
10.1016/j.cmpbup.2021.100031]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 09/18/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND
The current coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a global outbreak of a disease from a new coronavirus. Several databases have been published on this pandemic, but the research community still needs an easy way to get comprehensive information on COVID-19.
OBJECTIVES
COVID-19 pandemic database (CO-19 PDB) aims to provide wonderful insights for COVID-19 researchers with the well-gathered of all the COVID-19 data to one platform, which is a global challenge for the research community these days.
METHODS
We gathered 59 updated databases since December-2019 until May 2021 and divided them into six categories: digital image database, genomic database, literature database, visualization tools database, chemical structure database, and social science database. These categories focus on taking number of functions from the images, information from gene sequences, updates from relevant papers, essays, reports, articles, and books, the data or information in the form of maps, graphs, and charts, information of bonds between atoms, and updates about events of the physical and social environment, respectively.
RESULTS
Users can search the information of interest in two ways including typing the name of the database in the search bar or by clicking the right category directly. Computer languages such as CSS, PHP, HTML, Java, etc. are utilized to construct CO-19 PDB.
CONCLUSION
This article attempts to compile up-to-date appropriate COVID-19 datasets and resources that have not been compiled and given in such an accessible and user-friendly manner. As a result, the CO-19 PDB offers extensive open data sharing for both worldwide research communities and local people. Further, we have planned future development of new features, that will be awesome for future study.
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