Plans for HDBase—a research community website for Huntington's Disease

We are developing a community website, called HDBase, to support basic scientific research on Huntington's Disease (HD). The core of the site is expert-reviewed scientific content consisting of curated bibliographies on topics of interest to HD researches and datasets extracted from those bibliographies. We are presently working on the following content areas: therapeutic studies in mouse, primarily drug screens; HD mouse models; antibodies used in HD research; large scale gene expression studies; and genes and proteins relevant to HD research. We work closely with other public databases to improve their HD coverage and try not to duplicate their efforts. The net effect is that much of our content actually exists as part of other databases. All of the software developed for this project is open source, and the data are similarly provided at no cost.