Latest improvements for QIAGEN Biomedical Knowledge Base
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Release date: 20240521
What’s new in the QIAGEN Biomedical KB-HD 2024.1 release
We continuously develop and improve our software to deliver to you, our customer, maximum value. We’re excited to share with you our latest release of QIAGEN Biomedical KB-HD. It features updated, curated content from the literature and third-party databases. Get step-by-step guidance with refreshed tutorials and enhanced documentation and statistics.
As always, we want to know what we can improve on. Please send us any feature requests or suggestions by sending an email to ts-bioinformatics@qiagen.com.
Content changes
Updated content
New information has been incorporated into the statistics document as part of the Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) 2024 Spring release, which includes detailed insights into gene variants.
Software and documentation enhancements
Ontology browser
A new tool that is now available for R and Python clients, enabling visual exploration of content ontologies.
R tutorial notebooks
Fresh tutorials have been added to help users navigate through gene and disease exploration.
Name change
Biomedical Knowledge Base is now known as Biomedical KB-HD.
Date column formatting
Date columns in the R client now feature a consistent format.
Content updates
Various data sources have been updated to their most recent versions, including BioGRID, ClinicalTrials.gov, ClinVar, European Medicines Agency (EMA), Gene Ontology (GO), Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), Mammalian Phenotype Ontology (MPO), Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO), National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIt), PubChem, UniProt, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Edge metadata
New membership metadata have been added to the molecule_molecule_relationships.tsv file, enhancing over 132,000 edges.
Other updates
API Access
For customers with a full subscription to Biomedical KB-HD, API access is included. Please visit your MyQDI portal for more information.
Pathway Knowledge Base (PKB) update
PKB products will be discontinued starting with the 2024.4 release. All PKB data is accessible via Biomedical KB-HD, available through the MyQDI portal.