Article
ICEPO: the ion channel electrophysiology ontology.
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation - 1 Jan 2016
Hinard V, Britan A, Rougier J S, Bairoch A, Abriel H, Gaudet P
Abstract excerpt
Ion channels are transmembrane proteins that selectively allow ions to flow across the plasma membrane and play key roles in diverse biological processes. A multitude of diseases, called channelopathies, such as epilepsies, muscle paralysis, pain syndromes, cardiac arrhythmias or hypoglycemia are due to ion channel mutations. A wide corpus of literature is available on ion channels, covering both their functions...
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