General Information

OLIDA was developed by the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels (IB)²

OLIDA completely overhauled DIDA, a novel database that provided for the first time detailed information on genes and associated genetic variants involved in digenic diseases, the simplest form of oligogenic inheritance, with the aim of increasing the data quality, content and accessibility. OLIDA was designed to allow storage of information on any type of oligogenic diseases in addition to the digenic diseases present in DIDA.

While DIDA will be kept online for historical purposes, it will be deprecated in the future. OLIDA should be used instead as it contains more data and comes with more advanced features.

OLIDA is still under active development at (IB)² with new features planned for the future. Occasional down time is possible when the site gets updated.

Contact

If you have any questions about OLIDA that are not answered in the documentation, feel free to contact us at olida@ibsquare.be. We will try to get back at you as soon as possible.

OLIDA – publications and citations

OLIDA

When using data from OLIDA please cite:

• Nachtegael C. and Gravel B., Dillen A., Smits G., Nowé A., Papadimitriou S., Lenaerts T. Scaling up oligogenic diseases research with OLIDA: the Oligogenic Diseases Database. Database, April 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac023
  Citation files: BibTex, RIS

Predictors trained using our data

The data from digenic diseases of DIDA was used in our research group and around the world to train machine learning predictors aiming to predict and understand the cause of digenic diseases. They can be found on the about page of the website of DIDA at http://dida.ibsquare.be/about/.

ORVAL

ORVAL is a sister platform to OLIDA that incorporates the VarCoPP predictor, the digenic effect predictor and other analytical tools, to explore oligogenic variant combinations and predicted pathogenic gene networks in an individual. It is available at orval.ibsquare.be.

Citing ORVAL:

• Renaux A., Papadimitriou S., Versbraegen N., Nachtegael C., Boutry S., Nowé A., Smits G., Lenaerts T. ORVAL: A novel platform for the prediction and exploration of disease-causing oligogenic variant combinations. Nucleic Acids Research, May 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz437
  Citation files: BibTex, RIS

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