Abstract

   The Melanoma Gene Database (MGDB) is a manually curated catalog of
   molecular genetic data relating to genes involved in melanoma. The main
   purpose of this database is to establish a network of melanoma related
   genes and to facilitate the mechanistic study of melanoma
   tumorigenesis. The entries describing the relationships between
   melanoma and genes in the current release were manually extracted from
   PubMed abstracts, which contains cumulative to date 527 human melanoma
   genes (422 protein-coding and 105 non-coding genes). Each melanoma gene
   was annotated in seven different aspects (General Information,
   Expression, Methylation, Mutation, Interaction, Pathway and Drug). In
   addition, manually curated literature references have also been