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Table 2 Data source information

From: An approach for proteins and their encoding genes synonyms integration based on protein ontology

Data source (modified-date)

Synonyms number

Entities number (size)

Entity types

Characteristics

BioGRID (27-Aug-2019)

1,098,808

104,563

(6.46G)

Genes, Proteins

Synonyms are mostly involved in the literatures describing protein interactions

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (8-May-2019)

139,587

560,275

(6.26G)

Proteins, Protein sequences

Focusing on mining and recording synonyms related to sequences in protein literatures, while paying less attention to synonyms related to protein function and other aspects

NCBI Gene

(9-Sep-2020)

218,622

25,927,333

(3.29G)

Genes

Possible synonyms for each gene