RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 COVID-19 Disease Map, a computational knowledge repository of SARS-CoV-2 virus-host interaction mechanisms JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 2020.10.26.356014 DO 10.1101/2020.10.26.356014 A1 Marek Ostaszewski A1 Anna Niarakis A1 Alexander Mazein A1 Inna Kuperstein A1 Robert Phair A1 Aurelio Orta-Resendiz A1 Vidisha Singh A1 Sara Sadat Aghamiri A1 Marcio Luis Acencio A1 Enrico Glaab A1 Andreas Ruepp A1 Gisela Fobo A1 Corinna Montrone A1 Barbara Brauner A1 Goar Frishman A1 Luis Cristóbal Monraz Gómez A1 Julia Somers A1 Matti Hoch A1 Shailendra Kumar Gupta A1 Julia Scheel A1 Hanna Borlinghaus A1 Tobias Czauderna A1 Falk Schreiber A1 Arnau Montagud A1 Miguel Ponce de Leon A1 Akira Funahashi A1 Yusuke Hiki A1 Noriko Hiroi A1 Takahiro G. Yamada A1 Andreas Dräger A1 Alina Renz A1 Muhammad Naveez A1 Zsolt Bocskei A1 Francesco Messina A1 Daniela Börnigen A1 Liam Fergusson A1 Marta Conti A1 Marius Rameil A1 Vanessa Nakonecnij A1 Jakob Vanhoefer A1 Leonard Schmiester A1 Muying Wang A1 Emily E. Ackerman A1 Jason Shoemaker A1 Jeremy Zucker A1 Kristie Oxford A1 Jeremy Teuton A1 Ebru Kocakaya A1 Gökçe Yağmur Summak A1 Kristina Hanspers A1 Martina Kutmon A1 Susan Coort A1 Lars Eijssen A1 Friederike Ehrhart A1 D. A. B. Rex A1 Denise Slenter A1 Marvin Martens A1 Nhung Pham A1 Robin Haw A1 Bijay Jassal A1 Lisa Matthews A1 Marija Orlic-Milacic A1 Andrea Senff Ribeiro A1 Karen Rothfels A1 Veronica Shamovsky A1 Ralf Stephan A1 Cristoffer Sevilla A1 Thawfeek Varusai A1 Jean-Marie Ravel A1 Rupsha Fraser A1 Vera Ortseifen A1 Silvia Marchesi A1 Piotr Gawron A1 Ewa Smula A1 Laurent Heirendt A1 Venkata Satagopam A1 Guanming Wu A1 Anders Riutta A1 Martin Golebiewski A1 Stuart Owen A1 Carole Goble A1 Xiaoming Hu A1 Rupert W. Overall A1 Dieter Maier A1 Angela Bauch A1 Benjamin M. Gyori A1 John A. Bachman A1 Carlos Vega A1 Valentin Grouès A1 Miguel Vazquez A1 Pablo Porras A1 Luana Licata A1 Marta Iannuccelli A1 Francesca Sacco A1 Anastasia Nesterova A1 Anton Yuryev A1 Anita de Waard A1 Denes Turei A1 Augustin Luna A1 Ozgun Babur A1 Sylvain Soliman A1 Alberto Valdeolivas A1 Marina Esteban- Medina A1 Maria Peña-Chilet A1 Kinza Rian A1 Tomáš Helikar A1 Bhanwar Lal Puniya A1 Dezso Modos A1 Agatha Treveil A1 Marton Olbei A1 Bertrand De Meulder A1 Aurélien Dugourd A1 Aurélien Naldi A1 Vincent Noë A1 Laurence Calzone A1 Chris Sander A1 Emek Demir A1 Tamas Korcsmaros A1 Tom C. Freeman A1 Franck Augé A1 Jacques S. Beckmann A1 Jan Hasenauer A1 Olaf Wolkenhauer A1 Egon L. Wilighagen A1 Alexander R. Pico A1 Chris T. Evelo A1 Marc E. Gillespie A1 Lincoln D. Stein A1 Henning Hermjakob A1 Peter D’Eustachio A1 Julio Saez-Rodriguez A1 Joaquin Dopazo A1 Alfonso Valencia A1 Hiroaki Kitano A1 Emmanuel Barillot A1 Charles Auffray A1 Rudi Balling A1 Reinhard Schneider A1 the COVID-19 Disease Map Community YR 2021 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/02/26/2020.10.26.356014.abstract AB We describe a large-scale community effort to build an open-access, interoperable, and computable repository of COVID-19 molecular mechanisms - the COVID-19 Disease Map. We discuss the tools, platforms, and guidelines necessary for the distributed development of its contents by a multi-faceted community of biocurators, domain experts, bioinformaticians, and computational biologists. We highlight the role of relevant databases and text mining approaches in enrichment and validation of the curated mechanisms. We describe the contents of the Map and their relevance to the molecular pathophysiology of COVID-19 and the analytical and computational modelling approaches that can be applied for mechanistic data interpretation and predictions. We conclude by demonstrating concrete applications of our work through several use cases and highlight new testable hypotheses.Competing Interest StatementD. Maier and A. Bauch are employed at Biomax Informatics AG and will be affected by any effect of this publication on the commercial version of the AILANI software. J.A. Bachman and B. Gyori received consulting fees from Two Six Labs, LLC. T. Helikar has served as a shareholder and/or has consulted for Discovery Collective, Inc. R. Balling and R. Schneider are founders and shareholders of MEGENO S.A. and ITTM S.A. Remaining authors have declared no competing interests.