ProCanBio: a database of manually curated biomarkers for Prostate Cancer

Abstract Background Prostate Cancer is the second lethal malignancy in men worldwide. In the past, numerous research groups investigated the omics profiles of patients and scrutinized biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of prostate cancer. However, information related to the biomarkers is widely scattered across numerous resources in complex textual format, which poses hindrance to understand the tumorigenesis of this malignancy and scrutinization of robust signature. To the best of authors’ knowledge, there is no resource that can consolidate the information contained in all the published literature. Results Here, we present ProCanBio, a manually curated database that maintains detailed data on 2053 entries of potential prostate cancer biomarkers obtained from 412 publications in user friendly tabular format. Among them, 766 protein-based, 488 RNA-based, 157 genomic mutations, 261 miRNA-based, and 122 are metabolites-based biomarkers. To explore the information in the resource, a web-based interactive platform was developed with searching, and browsing facilities. ProCanBio is freely available and is compatible with most web browsers and devices. Eventually, we anticipated this resource will be highly useful for the research community involved in the area of prostate malignancy. Availability ProCanBio is available at: https://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/procanbio/