Nature Publishing Group (NPG) announces the launch of two new freely available information resources: the Functional Glycomics Gateway and the Pathway Interaction Database
The Functional Glycomics Gateway is a collaboration between the Consortium for Functional Glycomics and NPG.
It provides news, research data, databases and reagents resulting from the consortium's activities and is supplemented with an editorial section, updated monthly, of glycobiology research relevant to cell biologists, biochemists, and structural biologists.
The Pathway Interaction Database is an authoritative, peer-reviewed collection of information about biomolecular interactions that occur in human cellular signaling pathways.
Created in a collaboration between the US National Cancer Institute and NPG, the database is aimed at cell biologists, biochemists, computational biologists and bioinformaticians.
It offers a range of intuitive tools to allow users to easily search, view and download data, and complex queries can be created to further explore the database.
A concise editorial section provides synopses of recent important research articles and specially commissioned articles on the practical use of other relevant online tools.
Both sites result from NPG's ongoing commitment to create innovative, freely available online publications in partnership with the academic community.
