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 1998 Oxford University Press                                                   Nucleic Acids Research, 1998, Vol. 26, No. 1              89–93

FlyNets and GIF-DB, two Internet databases for
molecular interactions in Drosophila melanogaster
Elodie Mohr, Florence Horn+, Florence Janody, Catherine Sanchez, Violaine Pillet,
Bernard Bellon, Laurence Röder and Bernard Jacq*

Laboratoire de Génétique et Physiologie du Développement, IBDM, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, CNRS Case
907, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France and 1Atelier de Bio-Informatique, Case 13, Université de Provence,
3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille Cedex 03, France

Received September 30, 1997; Accepted October 3, 1997

ABSTRACT                                                                      describing known specific molecular interactions between genes,
                                                                              RNA and proteins are very often underepresented in these
GIF-DB and FlyNets are two WWW databases                                      databases and difficult to query. If one considers protein–DNA
describing molecular (protein–DNA, protein–RNA and                            interactions for instance, it is in principle possible to extract
protein–protein) interactions occuring in the fly Droso-                      specific information about them from the major nucleic acid
phila melanogaster (http://gifts.univ-mrs.fr/GIFTS_                           databases: in the features table of GenBank, EMBL and DDBJ
home_ page.html ). GIF-DB is a specialised database                           databases entries, the ‘protein_bind’ feature was designed to
which focuses on molecular interactions involved in                           localise the regions of DNA or RNA sequences which specifi-
the process of embryonic pattern formation, whereas
                                                                              cally interact with proteins and to identify these proteins. Using
FlyNets is a new and more general database, the
                                                                              the SRS 5.05 retrieval system (7) on GenBank release 102
long-term goal of which is to report on any published
                                                                              (August 1997), we found only 18 Drosophila melanogaster
molecular interaction occuring in the fly. The informa-
                                                                              sequences in which the ‘protein_bind’ feature was present and a
tion content of both databases is distributed in specific
                                                                              total number of 59 corresponding DNA or RNA binding sites in
lines arranged into an EMBL- (or GenBank-) like
                                                                              them (out of 25 315 sequences from this species). Although the
format. These databases achieve a high level of
                                                                              number of Drosophila genes and RNAs for which specific
integration with other databases such as FlyBase,
                                                                              interactions with proteins have been published is difficult to
EMBL, GenBank and SWISS-PROT through numerous
                                                                              estimate, the above numbers are clearly an underepresentation of
hyperlinks. In addition, we also describe SOS-DGDB,
                                                                              our present knowledge. Conversely, on the protein databases side,
a new collection of annotated Drosophila gene
                                                                              it is extremely difficult to extract from SWISS-PROT (4) or PIR
sequences, in which binding sites for regulatory
proteins are directly visible on the DNA primary                              (5) databases either a list of proteins which interact with a given
sequence and hyperlinked both to GIF-DB and TRANS-                            gene or a list of genes controlled by a given regulatory protein.
FAC database entries.                                                         The TRANSFAC database (8) gives some precise structural data
                                                                              for transcription factors and their known binding sites. Using
                                                                              again Drosophila as an example, we found in TRANSFAC 40
INTRODUCTION
                                                                              target genes for transcription factors and a total of 322 correspon-
Direct and specific molecular interactions, involving DNA, RNA                ding DNA-binding sites from this species, a better result than the
and proteins play an essential role in all known biological                   one obtained with GenBank. Even in this case however, data
processes. Three major types of interactions, i.e., protein–DNA,              essential for the understanding of transcription factor function in
protein–RNA and protein–protein interactions account for the                  their specific biological contexts are missing such as: the
great majority of known biological macromolecular interactions.               developmental stage at which interaction occurs, the phenotype
Several general databases exist for each of the three types of                of animals in which the transcription factor is absent or mutated,
informational macromolecules, such as GenBank (1), EMBL (2),                  the biological result of the interaction (gene activation or
and DDBJ (3) databases for DNA and RNA sequences,                             repression), the organisation of the cis-regulatory region and the
SWISS-PROT (4) and PIR (5) databases for protein sequences                    experimental evidence for interaction. As far as protein–RNA
and the PDB database (6) for molecular 3D structures. Many                    and protein–protein interactions are being considered, and
more specialised databases exist for specific families of genes,              although some very specific databases do exist, such as the
RNAs and proteins and this issue of Nucleic Acids Research                    MHCPEP database of MHC binding peptides for instance (9),
provides the reader with an up-to-date collection of such                     data on these interactions are also not easy to extract from existing
databases. Despite this abundance of information sources, data                databases.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +33 4 91 82 90 55; Fax: +33 4 91 82 06 82; Email: jacq@lgpd.univ-mrs.fr
+Present   address: Biocomputing 3D modelling unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, D-69012 Heidelberg, Germany
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   We are interested in the process of pattern formation in           several molecules of the same transcription factor on different
Drosophila and in understanding the basis of specific identity        cis-regulatory binding sites of a given gene will be considered as
acquisition by the different body parts (10–12). Different classes    one interaction only, in which the individual molecular inter-
of genes involved in the segmentation process (maternal, gap,         action events represent sub-interaction components. The same is
pair-rule and segment polarity genes) divide the embryo along the     true for the interaction between an RNA molecule and several
antero-posterior axis into repeated homologous units (13,14)          identical RNA-binding protein molecules or also for the inter-
which will develop specific identities and morphogenetic features     action of several copies of two different proteins within a
under the control of homeotic genes (15). Specific interactions       multimeric complex.
within and between these gene families are essential for the
establishment of a correct body pattern. Being able to access,        THE GIF-DB DATABASE
query and manipulate the data on these developmental genes and
their functional interactions within specific regulatory networks     Purpose and leading concepts of GIF-DB
is now recognised as an important need for developmental and
                                                                      GIF-DB, the Gene Interactions in the Fly Database, is a WWW
molecular biologists studying gene regulation. From a more
                                                                      database which aims at providing a repository for data on gene
general point of view, a basic knowledge of all other known
                                                                      interactions involved in Drosophila embryonic development and
macromolecular interactions in Drosophila would certainly help
                                                                      the regulatory networks in which they are involved. The first
to integrate our knowledge on the structure and function of the
                                                                      version of the database appeared on the WWW in October 1995
individual genes into a unified and physiological view of the
                                                                      and the concepts, database organisation and entry format of
organism. To achieve these goals, the development of new
                                                                      GIF-DB have previously been described (16). Briefly, four main
computer and information science tools is needed, among which
                                                                      leading concepts and goals were considered to elaborate GIF-DB.
that of interaction databases would probably be one of the most
                                                                      (i) Finding a relatively simple way to represent the various and
useful.
                                                                      complex knowledge we presently have on gene molecular
   In this paper, we describe the concepts, organisation, content
                                                                      interactions during embryonic development of Drosophila.
and use of two Drosophila interaction databases: GIF-DB, which
                                                                      (ii) Obtaining a high level of integration with other databases.
focuses on developmental molecular interactions and FlyNets, a
                                                                      (iii) Classifying all molecular interactions in one of three major
new general Drosophila interaction database. Finally, SOS-
                                                                      interaction types (protein–DNA, protein–RNA or protein–
DGDB, a new collection of Drosophila DNA sequences in which
                                                                      protein interactions). (iv) Defining a generic mode of interaction
binding sites for regulatory proteins are annotated on the primary
                                                                      representation which could potentially be used for the description
sequence and hyperlinked to GIF-DB and TRANSFAC database
                                                                      of nearly any gene interaction, whatever the biological process
entries is presented.
                                                                      and the organism in which they occur may be.

INTERACTION DEFINITIONS AND CLASSIFICATION                            Database organisation and entry format
Gene molecular interactions should not to be mistaken for genetic     In order to fulfill the above requirements, we have developed a
interactions. The latter are more general and include both indirect   generic structured hypertext format. The GIF-DB interaction
and direct interactions. Our working definition for a gene            database, which makes use of this format, is a collection of
molecular interaction is the following: there is a direct molecular   hypertext files, each of them describing an interaction between
interaction between gene A and gene B if gene A or one of its         two molecular partners as discussed above. Each entry contains
products (i.e., mRNA or protein) physically interacts at the          biological information which has been arranged into an ‘EMBL-
molecular level with gene B or one of its products (mRNA or           like’ or ‘SWISS-PROT-like’ model format. Wherever possible,
protein). Among the six different molecular interaction types         symbols and nomenclature supposed to be familiar to drosophi-
which could then theoretically be considered we have focused on       lists, geneticists, biochemists and molecular biologists are used to
three major types of interactions only, which are by far the most     describe the interactions and some conventions used in FlyBase,
documented ones, whatever the organism being considered:              the genetic and molecular Drosophila database (17) have been
protein–DNA interactions (type I), protein–RNA interactions           followed. All scientific data found in GIF-DB comes from the
(type II) and protein–protein interactions (type III).                literature. The information extracted from different articles is
   In order to simplify the management of data on interactions,       compiled (and synthetized if necessary), verified and entered in
and in accordance with the above definition of interaction types,     DEXIFLY (Horn et al., manuscript submitted), a Drosophila
all molecular interactions in GIF-DB and FlyNets databases will       relational database built using the 4th Dimension program
be described as binary interactions (i.e., interactions occuring      (ACI, Inc.) on a MacIntosh computer. The HTML files constitut-
between two molecular partners). This could be viewed as a            ing GIF-DB are then automatically generated from this database.
limitation if one considers what is already known about the              Each entry in the GIF-DB database is composed of lines and
complexity of gene interactions. However, and within certain          different types of lines (each having its own format) are used to
limits, any complex interaction which involves more than two          record the various types of gene interaction information which
partners (interaction between a DNA sequence and several              make up the entry. As is the case for the EMBL and SWISS-
different transcription factors, or between several proteins into a   PROT databases, each line in a GIF-DB entry begins with a
multimeric complex, for instance) could be split up into several      two-character line code indicating the type of information
binary interactions in order to be described. This binary point of    contained in the line. Wherever possible, we have tried to use the
view is also well adapted to our current experimental approach of     linetypes already established by the EMBL and SWISS-PROT
genetic and molecular interactions, in which two entities only are    databases, but due to the specificity of the GIF-DB database,
usually studied at a time. It has to be noted that the binding of     many new linetypes had to be introduced. Some of the original
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linetypes deserve a few comments. In particular, information
about the cis-regulatory regions in protein–DNA interaction
entries is given with an increasingly detailed view by the group
of RR (Regulatory Region location), RS (number and strength of
Regulatory Sites) and SS (regulatory Sites Sequence) lines.
Several lines contain hypertext pointers towards other databases
and at the moment, links towards FlyBase, GenBank, EMBL and
SWISS-PROT databases are supported. For the sake of clarity,
the 40 different linetypes in a GIF-DB entry have been arranged
into five zones: the ENTRY zone, the EFFECTOR zone, the
TARGET zone, the INTERACTION zone and the REFER-
ENCES zone. More details on the database general organisation,
entry format, the different linetypes an the on-line user manual for
the database can be found in the first description of GIF-DB (16).

Recent developments
Version 2.0 of GIF-DB (January 1997) contains 25 entries and
each of them is ∼4–6 pages long, with an average of 6–10
associated bibliographic references. Ten new entries have been
added and the majority of Version 1.2 entries have been updated.
The major change in Version 2.0 is the creation of a collection of
annotated DNA sequences linked to GIF-DB (Fig. 1). This
collection of sequences has been named SOS-DGDB (Sites On
Sequences Drosophila Gene DataBase). A click on any site in the        Figure 1. Example of an annotated sequence from the SOS-DGDB database.
SS lines of a given GIF-DB entry opens the corresponding               A part of the double-stranded genomic sequence of the hunchback gene is
                                                                       displayed. Lower case letters correspond to upstream control sequences and
SOS-DGDB sequence entry and points directly at the position of         pale blue capital letters at the bottom of the figure correspond to exon I of the
the selected site. This possibility allows the user to obtain an       gene. Sequence binding sites for different transcription factors are shown as
integrated view of the sites for all different trans-acting factors    capital colored letters in the sequence. The name of the DNA-binding protein
acting upon a cis-regulatory region within the context of the          and numbering of the binding site are indicated either above or below the
sequence of the target gene. From each binding site, two               corresponding site; blue G/T bracketed letters located besides the factors’ name
                                                                       correspond to activable links to either GIF-DB database (G) or TRANSFAC
hyperlinks are available which point either back to the GIF-DB         database (T) entries.
database or to the corresponding site in the TRANSFAC (8)
database (if available). At present, our SOS-DGDB collection
(Version 1.0) contains sequences for 16 genes and ∼200 binding
sites have been color-highlighted on the sequences. Different          these interactions (which we estimate to represent a few thousand
colors are used to discriminate between the several families of        ones) with the precision level that GIF-DB entries have presently
transcription factors. As has been extensively discussed in            reached is now impossible, since elaboration of a GIF-DB entry
Arnone and Davidson (18), identification and analysis of many          represents, on average, 20–30 hours of work (including critical
cis-regulatory elements is of central importance for understand-       reading and analysis of the original papers). We therefore decided
ing the function of regulatory networks and of the genomic             to build another interaction database with less information fields
program for development. The development of databases like             than GIF-DB, and for which part of the elaboration task could be
SOS-DGDB is a step in that direction, but new specific tools           automatized in the future. This database is called the FlyNets
devoted to the analysis and comparison of regulatory sequences         database and our goal is to progressively integrate in it data about
have still to be created.                                              the majority of known molecular Drosophila interactions.

THE FlyNets DATABASE                                                   Database organisation and entry format

Purpose and leading concepts                                           The FlyNets database shares many common features with the
                                                                       GIF-DB database: the definition of three major interaction classes
A database like GIF-DB could gain added value if the develop-          and the general organisation of entries into five zones have been
mental networks that it contains could also be viewed and              conserved. This is also true for almost all FlyNets linetypes which
analysed in the physiological context of all other regulatory          are the same as in GIF-DB, for the conventions adopted in the line
networks occurring in the organism. Although a large number of         contents (and described in the on-line FlyNets-primer document),
molecular interactions constitutive of these networks have been        for the line length (80 characters) and for the format of the
studied, no database or even a simple list of these interactions is    references. The two main differences are the number of linetypes
as yet available. Flybase (17) recently started to compile genetic     supported and the format of the line headers. A total of 31 linetypes
interactions (M. Ashburner, personal communication). Collect-          (instead of 40 in GIF-DB) are presently supported. The comments
ing and organising data about all Drosophila direct molecular          line in FlyNets now regroups data which were present in several
interactions for which published experimental evidence is              different comment lines in GIF-DB. This line is organised in a way
available would therefore represent a major advance in our             similar to that of the SWISS-PROT CC line in which different types
knowledge on interaction networks. However, describing all             of comments are arranged in as many sub-comments. The second
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                                                                                    INTERACTIVE WWW ACCESS TO THE INTERACTION
                                                                                    DATABASES

                                                                                    GIF-DB and FlyNets databases can be accessed using the World
                                                                                    Wide Web through the GIFTS (Gene Interaction in the Fly
                                                                                    Transworld Server) WWW server in Marseille. To access the
                                                                                    WWW, one needs a WWW browser such as Netscape Navi-
                                                                                    gator (from Netscape Communications Corp.) and a link to the
                                                                                    Internet. The URL (Uniform Resource Locator, the addressing
                                                                                    system used in the WWW) of the GIFTS Server is http://gifts.
                                                                                    univ-mrs.fr/GIFTS_home_page.html . In addition to giving an
                                                                                    access to these databases, the GIFTS server also provides services
                                                                                    such as GIN, a series of annotated pages to help navigate on the
                                                                                    Internet and BLASTula, a specialised service giving an integrated
                                                                                    access to more than 40 different Blast analysis sites in the world.
                                                                                    Many of these Blast servers operate on collections of new DNA
                                                                                    sequences from the different genome projects which are not yet
                                                                                    integrated in the EMBL, GenBank and DDBJ general databases.
                                                                                      There are two different ways to access GIF-DB data once the
                                                                                    connection with the server is established: either through a
                                                                                    hypertext list of all available entries accessible from the GIF-DB
                                                                                    home page or through a query search program. The search can be
                                                                                    performed either on the entire database or in any one of the 40
                                                                                    different data lines of all entries. At the moment, FlyNets data is
                                                                                    accessible through the hypertext list of entries only, and a query
                                                                                    program will soon be available.

                                                                                    CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

                                                                                    Interaction databases such as GIF-DB and FlyNets provide a
                                                                                    simple and straightforward way to make functional links between
                                                                                    specific entries from different molecular databases. Such func-
                                                                                    tional links are a useful complement to the structural links
Figure 2. Example of a typical FlyNets entry. The information content of the        (present as database cross-references) existing between many
entry is distributed among several lines which have been grouped into five          EMBL (or GenBank) entries and their SWISS-PROT (or
different zones (Entry, Effector, etc.). Each line starts with an explicit header   PIR-International) corresponding translational products.
followed by the corresponding data. Hyperlinks towards EMBL, SWISS-                    After that the different genome projects will have provided us
PROT and FlyBase are shown in blue or red. Hyperlinks appearing within the
comments and the references point to FlyBase publication reports. The headers       with extensive catalogs of genes and proteins for several
of the five zones are hyperlinks towards the FlyNets database primer, an on-line    organisms, it will be essential to describe how and with which
reference manual explaining the conventions used in the database.                   other molecules these components establish specific interactions,
                                                                                    a knowledge which cannot be deduced from their sequences or
                                                                                    structures. In what is now called the ‘post-genome’ era, both new
                                                                                    experimental methods and new bioinformatics concepts and tools
                                                                                    are needed to gradually paint the complicated picture of
                                                                                    biological pathways. In this respect, on the informatics side,
difference with GIF-DB is the format of linetypes headers: each line                interaction databases, such as GIF-DB and FlyNets, as well as
in a GIF-DB entry begins with a two-character line code indicating                  metabolic databases such as EcoCyc (19) or KEGG (20) for
the type of information contained in the line, as is the case for the               instance, are likely to play increasingly important roles in the near
EMBL and SWISS-PROT databases. Since several users of                               future. We have recently been aware of the existence of GeNet,
GIF-DB having found difficulty in memorising the signification of                   a gene networks database (21) in which Drosophila segmentation
a two-letter code for 40 linetypes, we have decided to adopt a                      networks are also described. Some concepts, originally devel-
different convention in FlyNets. The line headers now have a                        oped in the GIF-DB database, have been introduced in the GeNet
GenBank-like format and are explicit words or group of words with                   database. A nice feature of this database is the presence of
a maximum length of 20 characters (e.g. identificator, creation date,               interactive schematic representations of regulatory pathways
target function, authors, etc.). As is the case for GIF-DB, the                     linked to gene entries. In an evolutionary perspective, building
information necessary to build FlyNets entries is extracted from                    interaction databases for different organisms would be extremely
different scientific articles, compiled, verified and entered into a                interesting since it would provide a means to see to what extent
relational database (F.Horn, unpublished) from which the HTML                       homologous genes are working through homologous regulatory
files constituting FlyNets are then automatically generated. Version                pathways.
1.0 of FlyNets (January 1997) contains ∼70 interaction entries. A                      Within the next few years, we plan to offer new possibilities
typical example of a FlyNets entry is shown in Figure 2.                            within GIF-DB and FlyNets through the addition of a few new
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