Pharmacogenetics knowledge base

Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base home page. Available at www. pharmgkb.org/. 

Klein TE, Altman RB. PharmGKB the pharmacogenetics and pharmacoge-nomics knowledge base. Pharmacogenomics J 2004 4 1. 

Anonymous. PharmGKB. The pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics knowledge base, http // www.pharmgkb.org (Accessed December 5, 2004). 

The Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base Caroline F. Thorn, Teri E. Klein, and Russ B. Altman... 

PharmGKB stores pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics data in a structured format so that it can be searched, interrelated, and displayed according to the researchers interests, either for manual inspection or to download for further analyses. The knowledge base is valuable both to the researcher who is interested in a specific single-nucleotide polymorphism and its influence on a... 

Professionals in medicine and the life sciences must be prepared to adapt to this new approach. However, systems-based pharmacogenomics is unlikely to be ready for clinical application in the near future. To benefit patients today, the already available options of pharmacogenetics should be carefully implemented in clinical practice as soon as possible. Teaching the current, continuously updated knowledge of pharmacogenomics should not be postponed until the new paradigm arrives [19]. 

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