Overview
HDinHD
HDinHD (Huntington’s Disease in High Definition; HDinHD.org) is an open online portal for the HD research community that presents a synthesized view of HD-related, largely pre-clinical, scientific data.
The goal of HDinHD is to foster and support a collaborative community united in its drive to accelerate the development of therapeutics that will delay the onset and/or ameliorate the effects of Huntington’s disease. HDinHD seeks to achieve this through:
- Sharing HD-related primary scientific data
- Sharing analyses and computational models built from HD-related scientific data
- Providing browsing and data interrogation tools over both primary and analyzed data that facilitate data exploration and hypothesis generation
- Building a forum for HD researchers to highlight their data, tools, know-how and insight to the community
We highlight below several tools and data resources available for download from HDinHD.
An overview of HDinHD componentry, featuring a demonstration of the HD Explorer.
This video was originally presented at the annual CHDI HD Therapeutics Conference, April 27-29 2021.
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TOOLS
GWAS
The following tools were developed by the Genetic Modifiers of Huntington’s Disease (GeM-HD) Consortium in order to provide access to genome-wide findings from Huntington’s disease genetic modifiers analyses.
Tools
HD Explorer
HD Explorer presents an integrated network of HD experimental data curated and analyzed from the literature, community ‘omics repositories and newly-released internal CHDI reports. HD Explorer includes the following components:
Publications and CHDI Reports
PubMed articles or CHDI program reports referred to within the HDinHD ecosystem. Most publications are linked to experimental data detailed across HDinHD.
Htt Interactor Studies
HTT (either mutant or WT) protein-protein interaction reports - both positive and negative - curated from the literature.
Perturbation Studies
Methods, outcomes and experimental details from interventional (pharmacological, genetic, lifestyle, etc.) studies applied to an HD model. Data has been curated from >1,500 PubMed articles and CHDI program reports.
Omics Studies
HD and HD-related datasets drawn from GEO, PRIDE, ArrayExpress and other public domain omics repositories. Datasets are curated and analyzed, and links are provided to gene sets resulting from these analyses.
Gene Sets
Gene sets derived from publications, CHDI program reports, HD perturbation studies and community omics datasets. These gene sets compose HDSigDB , a Gene Set Enrichment Library designed to provide rich functional context for HD-related gene set enrichment analysis.
HD Mouse Models
A catalog of distinct mouse models described in the HD literature as well as mouse models available for licensing from CHDI. Individual mouse model lines are bi-directionally linked within HD Explorer to/from published experimental data generated using that mouse model.
Current as of October 7, 2024
Publications and CHDI Reports
PubMed articles or CHDI program reports referred to within the HDinHD ecosystem. Most publications are linked to experimental data detailed across HDinHD.
Htt Interactor Studies
HTT (either mutant or WT) protein-protein interaction reports - both positive and negative - curated from the literature.
Perturbation Studies
Methods, outcomes and experimental details from interventional (pharmacological, genetic, lifestyle, etc.) studies applied to an HD model. Data has been curated from >1,200 PubMed articles and CHDI program reports.
Omics Studies
HD and HD-related datasets drawn from GEO, PRIDE and ArrayExpress molecular studies. Datasets are curated and analyzed, and links are provided to gene sets resulting from these analyses.
Gene Sets
Gene sets derived from publications, CHDI program reports and community 'omics repositories. These gene sets compose HDSigDB , a Gene Set Enrichment Library designed to provide rich functional context for HD-related gene set enrichment analysis.
HD Mouse Models
A catalog of distinct HD Mouse models described in the literature. Individual mouse model lines are bi-directionally linked within HD Explorer to/from published experimental data generated using that mouse model.
Current as of Jan 1, 2023
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Molecular signatures in mouse striatum
Our partners at Rancho BioSciences performed a comprehensive analysis of gene and protein data generated from an allelic series of knock-in (KI) mice containing an increasing number of CAG repeats. A 266 striatal gene disease signature and a 115 striatal protein disease signature were developed and validated in external datasets. These signatures represent molecular readouts of disease progression in models of HD mice, further characterize their HD-related phenotype and can be useful in the preclinical evaluation of candidate therapeutic interventions.
The Downloads section of HDinHD includes a Striatum Disease signature section, containing the following:
- A full writeup of the analysis of mouse allelic series KI data
- All differential gene and protein expression results across 14 central and peripheral mice tissue
- Analysis scripts used to generate the data
The manuscript can also be downloaded from the bioRxiv.